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This old plow probably created many a sore back on mule and man in the days before tractors.
Ozark country, for all its natural beauty, is not particularly prosperous. I couldn't tell if this one-room log cabin was just for show or someone's home: there are curtains in the upstairs window and the washtub hanging from the wall above the porch is shiny and new, not a pretentious antique. In any case, I found it near the town of Success, Missouri.
Blue Spring, too, is aptly named. The deep azure color comes through even on a cloudy day. A wooden platform to the left lets you look down into the very clear water nearly 50 feet. Below that, the outlet curves into the underwater cave system that carries the water down from the uplands.
Coming from the blue columbine country of Colorado, I'm always a bit surprised to find other colors, like this red one growing near Big Spring.
This roller-coaster road in southern Missouri allows a person, or a car, to have about as much fun as can be had legally while driving.