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These shots are from one of the benches at the edge of the lake.

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This building has gone through some interesting changes in the past year. It deserves to be documented in its own post, so here it is. You can see it at the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge.The images are not in chronological order.

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Your blogger will return soon, having taken some downtime due to illness and another pet's death. Two weeks ago I had the absolute worst week-end ever. It turned out to be an abscessed tooth, which of course, had to be pulled. Until that could happen on a Monday, I had the worst pain I think I've ever experienced in my life. Part of my face is still numb, though gradually returning to

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These are just some views of Mount Olivet Cemetery.

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Obviously, I didn't take this. It's from 1864. I've written two or three articles about Fort Negley, the last one appearing in the Nashville Retrospect. That article can be seen in the visitor's area of the fort, where it hangs on the wall of the movie room. They even framed it. I always like to visit the fort when I can, and when I bring my bike, I usually

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It was a hot, muggy day in Shelby Bottoms and I was nearing the end of a long, tiring bicycle ride. As I headed toward the pedestrian bridge, I thought of the long climb, not just up the artificial, cone-shaped hill that anchored this end of it, but of the even tougher climb up the hill to the parking lot at Wave Country, once I got across the bridge. My stainless steel water

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I took some new ones Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011 I may be wearing this out as subject matter for images of downtown Nashville, but I love the bridge. A few weeks ago I even helped a double amputee who had fallen out of his wheelchair in an alley below the bridge. All he asked me to do for him besides help him up was wheel him up to the

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Well, I finally found a camera for under a hundred dollars that is as good as the Nikon that was stolen. It's a Canon that I got at Electronic Express for about twenty dollars off. These are some shots I took today on the Greenway near where I live. I was shaky from all the exertion of riding a bike, yet the pics came out clear. The old building with the corrugated tin looks

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Would that it were only that easy. Having lost my Nikon due to a house break-in last summer, I finally bought something on sale. It was a Vivitar that I got for half price at Kohl's. Maybe it was a mistake, because I'm having a lot of trouble learning to use it. At first it seemed as though the quality was not as good as that of the Nikon, though that

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More pics from my daily bike rides.

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The bridge is a work in progress and only one lane is currently open. I decided to ride my bike from Shelby Park to the bridge just to see how practical it was. It turned out to be an easy ride, with bike lanes almost all the way, and only one really steep grade, namely the bridge itself. Rather than ride all the way to the top, I eventually elected to walk the last hundred yards or

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Today I came home from a long day at work and discovered him dead. In the Big Picture, a cat may only be a small pixel, an infinitesimal speck in the eye of the Creator, but for almost fifteen years this very special little guy was a companion, a giver of unconditional love, and a cheerful fellow born into a world where quiet demonstrations of loyalty too often go unnoticed and unrewarded. His

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August 2010   Click image to enlarge The snaking "bridge" is the boardwalk behind Polo Park Apartments on Lebanon Road. I'm also trying to see if anyone knows how old the railroad pylons are across Stones River below the hill that the YMCA and Police Academy sit on. For some reason the old railroad cut fell into disuse and the track was pulled up. Now all you see is the raised

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Click on image to enlarge The Shelby Park and Shelby Bottoms Greenway has some interesting stuff in it. I have yet to shoot any of the old statuary or whatever it is they put in there. It's a lot like the band shell and such at Centennial Park. But this last time I went I took some shots of the Duck Pond and a water overflow valve. When it doesn't smell too bad I sit there and sip my water

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