Digging Deep In The Archives...

From way back in 2003, from a late October visit to McAdams Peak, in Pere Marquette State Park. At 372 ft above the Illinois River, it seems a rather modest hill, but "Peak" it is.... That's the Illinois River in the background, just a bit north of the confluence with the Mississippi..

A pumpkin farm, not far from Pere Marquette, also from 2003:

This one is much more recent, from October 2004. Along the Spokane River, not far outside Spokane, WA.