Athens, GA

Another college town. This one like most seem to be run by football fever. It's everywhere and it's a bit of a turn off for me. Not sure I could last too long. Anyway another day in another town. This demo got rained out after about 5 mins. Here's my offering, a nice wood door and some rain.












See ya in S. Carolina.

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Ohio river and river thoughts

In louisville on the 22nd floor the Galt hotel which sits right on the southern bank of Ohio, I had an amazing view of that river and that city. The river was probably a half mile there and made me dream of exploring it. I was on the outside bend and the logs, small boats and incredibly long barges would navigate past the curves, bridges and past my view.
The scene had me wanting to spend a month navigating the river myself exploring the bends the shallows and depths the cities and the wilderness. There is some wilderness out here. But I can't explore so can I just come home.

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Quail Botanical Gardens

Parker and I spent a few hours at Quail on Monday and had so much fun. We usually just head right for the "Seeds of Wonder" garden, which is targeted to toddlers and which is totally entertaining for him. But this time we walked through the main gardens to the newer children's garden, which is targeted to older kids but still lots of fun for him. Even better, the children's garden was practically deserted since school was back in session, so we had the place to ourselves! It was mostly a cool, cloudy day, so we didn't get too hot. This garden has a huge treehouse, an area with building blocks (where we sat on the ground and spent a lot of time making huge towers), a "mountain stream" with plastic boats for racing, and a raised vegetable garden. We saw lots of lizards, and found this butterfly lounging on the ground in the veggie garden (hopefully he was just "resting" and wasn't injured or sick...). I seized the opportunity to get a quick pic of Parker with the butterfly on his hand--that's usually not an easy feat! On the way back to the car we walked through a few different areas of the main garden, checking out awesome succulents and the huge waterfall in the "tropical rainforest" area. A great day.

Knoxville

Walking around some dark streets in a business area I came across this and then a bunch of good restaurants. Tofu spinach okra cheese and almonds sandwhich. New Belgium beer. Lucky me.


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TN

Sitting in a ditch Knoxville. Not complaining, just am.


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Louisville, KY

Not so bad looking with the right light.

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