High Water

 The river is definitely up in downtown Minneapolis after the last rains.  Previously, much of this stretch of the river walk had 10 to 12 feet of exposed shoreline.  The drop from the guard rail to the shore makes it almost impossible to pick up trash without using a canoe.  I don't have a canoe. I had thought about getting one of those 96" extending pole grabbers from Home Depot.  Or maybe a rope ladder that I could hook onto the guard rail so I could climb down.  OK, I'm not really going to do that.

Before the recent rains the shore looked more like this. That Reddi Wip can has been the bane of my existence for the last two months.  Hopefully some of this stuff has washed further down stream where other folks can pick it up.   The Friends of the Mississippi River organization are hosting a clean up day on May 30th in Hastings at a spot where trash is known to pool.
                       http://www.fmr.org/events/2015/05/30/floodplain-forest-cleanup 

There's a red lawn chair, a beer holder and a baseball cap down there and probably a good story to go with them. Hopefully, all of it is on its way to Hastings.