Tuesday, April 15
It has been one of those precious days. Perfectly blue skies, no wind and temperature recovering from frost this morning to a very pleasant noon. I invoked my rights as a senior citizen to take the day off and do precisely nothing.
Nothing meant driving around in the outskirts of Memphis. I was hoping to catch some wild life in Shelby Farms, but I was too late in the day and other colleagues had had the same idea as I, and were spread out all over the park.
Whatever wild life there is had retracted to the deeper woods.
I studied the various fishing techniques around the pond.
The only submarine life I could detect was a snapping turtle with an attitude.
I drove from Shelby Farms through the city to the big river. People relaxing here, too. Water is still high, the river may have crested. There is a heap of driftwood and debris along the new shoreline, it will take time to restore the area after the flood. I hope the trees will make it, they seem to have survived floodings before.
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