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This is a place close to my home. It's a boat landing on the St. Croix river in Wisconsin called Nevers Dam Landing. Nevers Dam was built in 1889 and then removed in 1955. It was built to remedy the problem of log jams on the river so that logs could more easily float down the Saint Croix and Mississippi Rivers for the logging industry. To build it, piles were sunk into the river, stone cribs were built, and there were 15 sluicing gates and one huge 80 foot wide Bear Trap Gate. There is no longer a dam here, but when there was, it was the largest wooden dam in the world, and the Bear trap Gate was the largest dam gate in the world. This is a beautiful, peaceful place where the river is usually shallow, but still quite fast. When I'm at the landing I can always look across the river and see my home state of Minnesota and could almost walk there because the river is so narrow at this spot. ***I just liked the shadows and the textures of the cement with the rocks and leaves between.