Barn Bluff

Don’t think
 As you are looking down onto the mighty river
  Through the elms and oaks
 From your picnic spot
  Under the King Oak
   Without peer
 With the knowledge that you are in Minnesota
That you are looking east
 
Nor that
 When you look the other way
across the blanket
  past your wife and children
 To what’s on the other side of the bluff
  Town blocks and schools and cars.
You would be looking west when you turned
 
Heading down river to the ragged cliffs
 on the pleasant
  fairly straight
 age old walking path
and heading upriver to the overlook of the downtown
 and the big river-crossing bridge
will not bring you south and north, respectively.

Also:
Don’t think
at the end of October
 knowing that you are in Minnesota 
that you have lost your last chance
for a River fall day trip

For the mighty river doesn’t always flow south.
And there is such a thing as well above average temperatures.

Both Mississippi and November may surprise you. 

Sometimes Nature breaks what we think are its rules. As does it’s Creator.