City sunset

Big Spring Park, Huntsville, Alabama, U. S. A.

Reflecting

Happy New Year!!!

I did not purposefully choose this image for New Year's Day.  I was finding things to schedule a few days ahead and this one was just next.  I took this shot because I liked the tree and clouds reflecting in the very clean looking windows.  As it turns out, it can be made to fit.  Yesterday was one year, exactly, since my husband's last radiation treatment for his throat cancer.  You could say that reflecting back, I have love/hate feelings towards this place.  Although, this is not the cancer center where we went every weekday for seven weeks, and many times since then, the office of the ENT who first saw Tony is right up there in that concave curve.  I will always remember that visit and looking out to see the "Batman" building (AT&T) downtown Nashville.  And mostly, I will always remember the doctor telling me "You're gonna have to keep him".
(see the Batman building here)

Fluffy and glassy

A recent evening on Wheeler Lake on the Tennessee River in northwest Alabama, The Shoals.

The second shot is on Second Creek that feeds the river.

Drab cuties

Turtle cuties in drab green.

This is far from my usual colorful shots, but I couldn't resist with their perfect little reflections.

This was as close as I dared get with the camera, 270 mm zoom, and as close as I dared crop the photo.

(Not sure about that tire.  I suppose it is someone's trash.)

Before the Super Moon

Rural waters at beautiful

Joe Wheeler State Park Lodge and Marina

Rogersville, Alabama

First Creek, just off the Tennessee River

iPhone 5 photo just a few days before the SuperMoon

Revealed

My knock-off Riedel wine glasses show their flaws.

I'm sure the real thing at $30/glass wouldn't have those rings revealed by the camera lens.

Wreath

Nashville, Tennessee, U. S. A.

Many things to see

Nashville, Tennessee, U. S. A.

What do you see first?

Bold Hatmakers

 

 

 

 

Goorin Bros. Hatmakers

Nashville, Tennessee, U. S. A.

 

 



Night cruise

The General Jackson cruises up and down
the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee.

We were lucky enough to see it turn around right in front of us at the LP Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans . . .

. . . and head home to the Gaylord Opryland properties.

Rollin' on the river

On the Cumberland River

Nashville, Tennessee

Do you know . . .

. . . what this is? . . .

Vintage boats

Friday night we went to see vintage boats at the Alabama State Park which is near our town.

Joe Wheeler Lodge and Marina (http://www.alapark.com/JoeWheeler/) has a vintage boat show each year (I think each year).

This year it coincides with the start of the W. C. Handy Festival which is an annual Blues event in the Shoals area of North Alabama.   It might be planned during the Handy Festival each year, but I'm not sure.

It is only a few minutes from our house.  The lodge and marina are on a creek which runs from the Tennessee River.

There weren't that many vintage boats there, but there was one from 1927.  It looked as good as the ones from the fifties and sixties.  Did I get a photo of it?  No.

There are always deer around, especially in the evening.  I was hoping to see a fawn or two, but no luck.

This one stayed about ten feet from the car while I took its picture.

Handy Festival poster design (http://www.wchandymusicfestival.org/festival.htm):  "This year's winners are a team of undergraduate students from the University of North Alabama;  Savannah Trammell from Rogersville, Alabama; Taylor Noblit from Tuscumbia, Alabama; and Kristen Dunn from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.  The design was created as a class assignment for an honors computing course taught at UNA by Ron Davis, Assistant Professor of Computing Information Systems.  All three students are members of the UNA Honors Program."

Next Friday, as part of the Handy Festival, a "Tina Turner" impersonator is being featured again at Joe Wheeler State Park.
If I go, maybe you'll get to see her next Saturday.  :)


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