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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Biked to Farmers' Market for Lunch Today

It was a beautiful day to bike the 25 miles round trip to Nashville Farmers' Market at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park and along the way I used my little pocket camera (point & shoot) to capture a large Pileated Woodpecker, Wild Turkey, Wild Flowers, and the downtown Pedestrian Bridge which has just been renamed the Siegenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. There's still a lot of nature in the city when biking on the Greenway!







Sunday, April 27, 2014

Farm Along Greenway

This farm is alongside the Stones River Greenway where I rode yesterday to Shelby Bottoms Nature Center and back. I think this is the farm that will soon be converted to a city park. It is hilly and I saw a large mass of May Apples in a wooded area. Nice spot in Donelson/Hermitage area.

Monday, April 21, 2014

First Bike Ride Downtown

Saturday was a beautiful Spring day and I rode my bike on the greenway from Hermitage to downtown Nashville, ate lunch at Tazza, then rode back, 24 miles round trip. It was Stones River Greenway to Shelby Bottoms Greenway through Shelby park to Davidson Road to the Titans stadium and Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge. Next time I will go all the way to Bicentennial Mall State Park and Farmers' Market for lunch. This is fun and we have a good Greenway system in Nashville and getting better.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Motown to Budapest - My Weekend Adventures!

I went with a group from McKendree to hear "The Midtown Men" sing 1960's hits with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra Thursday night - a real blast from the past! These are the same four singers who did the Broadway Musical "Jersey Boys" which I saw a few years ago in Chicago. They are really good!

Then Friday night I decided at the last minute to brave Friday night crowds at Opry Mills Mall and see a new movie with great reviews, The Grand Budapest Hotel. It is a really fun movie to watch and so artistically done as is usual for Wes Anderson - maybe his best yet! A visual feast, a lot of humor, but also a lot of serious stuff. Most of all just fun to watch in my opinion. Note that I'm aware some people hate his movies. And I was glad this theater wasn't crowded like the four theaters showing Captain America. A fun Friday night for me!