These are ambrosial marshlands with small creeks that flow from the Little Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. This small river flows 230 miles (370 km)from Tippah County, through Tallahatchie County, to Leflore County, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River. The river is navigable for about 100 miles.
Tallahatchie is a First Nations Choctaw name meaning "rock of waters" and was an important trade tribal route. The head-water sources of the Tallahatchie River have outcrops of iron sandstone.
The eponymous wooden bridge over the river was popularized in Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit song "Ode to Billie Joe," which has the refrain, "Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge." The wooden bridge collapsed in 1972 after being set alight by vandals. It crossed the Tallahatchie River at Money, about ten miles north of Greenwood, Mississippi, and has since been replaced.
The river is also mentioned in "Tallahatchie River Blues," recorded by Mattie Delaney in 1930. This blues song laments the devastation caused in the local African-American community by a flood on the normally shallow river.
The river is 50 ft (15 m) deep with very sharp rocks. As part of the Flood Control Act of 1936, the federal government built an earth-filled flood control dam on the Tallahatchie near the town of Sardis, Mississippi, creating Sardis Lake and these flooded marshes seen in the picture above.
I lensed this image while flying above the area in the early spring. The budding flowers and algae are brightly colored and vibrant in the sunshine.
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