After floating the Current River recently, we stopped at Blue Spring on the drive home.
Photos do not prepare you for it.
The color looks almost artificial at first, an impossible blue that barely seems real until you stand next to it. Then there is the sound. Millions of gallons of water surge from the spring every day after traveling underground through the limestone beneath Missouri.
Standing there, it struck me how much of this state is shaped by things most of us never see.
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