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My 8000th visitor was anwend from Georgia USA!
She has an interesting blog, well worth a visit or more!
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Apr 3, 9:09am
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![]() Take a ride to the mall with me along the back streets in east Memphis. Just a clip from the other day. I upgraded the memory card in my camera and discovered that I have almost an hour's video time on it. 15 frames per second is not quite enough to give smooth motion, but it's too much fun for me not to use it.
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Apr 2, 7:36pm
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Beale Street
Although it has been a chilly day there was almost the usual crowd at Beale Street tonight.
After I paid a "gift of love" as Mr Williams put it, he picked up his trumpet and gave a short performance. Click in the picture and he might play it again. Actually, most of these images are linked to a clip.
It was refreshing to see people of all ages out together tonight and nobody who had had too much to drink.
This artist had a small crowd around him, he seemed quite undisturbed by my using the flash to get a picture or two. And he was quite good, too.
A severely underexposed picture finally of the horse rides. I'll be back here when evenings are lighter and the weather is warmer.
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Apr 2, 10:31am
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Memphis Bridge
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Apr 1, 10:47pm
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Apr 1, 7:57pm
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![]() A Mockingbird sang while I was out in the yard between rain showers. I didn't get a good picture, I would have scared him off if I moved, but the song was awesome, in spite of background noise.
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Mar 31, 3:27pm
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![]() The sparrows are busy
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Sorry about those barking dogs. The birds are only active during morning hours and apparently so were the neighbors' dogs today. I didn't realize how annoying they really were until I listened to the clip on Youtube, myself.
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Mar 30, 8:50pm
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"Those who always
know what’s best
are
a universal pest".
Piet Hein
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Mar 28, 4:28pm
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My wife and I drove down to the river again today, I have been curious to see how much it has risen since last weekend. We went a bit further down stream today, to the Tom Lee park. The park, not really a park yet, is an open stretch between the city and the river. Newly planted trees will probably transform it into a park within the next ten years. I had the luck to see two of the old steamboats struggling with the strong current, their progress was almost undetectable.
I realized that this place deserves better weather for picture taking, it is gloomy and overcast today and really, really chilly again.
I never stopped to look at the "sky line" or city from this angle before, it doesn't look bad at all. But i need to come back when the sun is shining.
The park got its name to honor this black man, who in 1925 while risking his own life saved many of the passengers on a steam boat that capsized on the river. The statue depicts him saving a man from drowning. One must remember this was in 1925; the passengers on that ship were white, upper class families, he, on the other hand was, let us say, underprivileged... He saw beyond all prejudice and bigotry and saw fellow human beings in distress. Or, and this is a heart breaking thought, had he all his life been taught to regard his own life as less worthy than the passengers' lives on that sinking boat?
They have chosen the location well for the statue. I can imagine the panic being swept away by the strong current after a shipwreck.
Out near the tree a bit left of center in the image is where I was standing last week taking pictures.
The water might rise further before it is over. But this is by no means a disaster on the Tennessee side, it is far worse on the other side, where huge areas are under water.
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