Faux Paw Fashion Contest 2012

My favorite part of the day was the dog fashion show.  Good stuff!  "Charlie" (who belongs to a friend of Kristin's...won).  I forget which rapper he is...ha ha.

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Tomato Art Festival 2012

 So Today was a gorgeous one!  The high temp was somewhere around 81 with a cool breeze blowing all day and lots of sunshine and no humidity!  So a perfect day for the Tomato Art Fest.  I spent part of the day with Kristin and Barrett, Tim Doty, Ryan Rose, and Autumn & Heath Potter.  My camera battery died soon after getting there, so I didn't get too many shots...here are the few I took with my camera and then a few with my iphone.

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July 4, 2012 Celebration

Spent this afternoon with Barrett, Kristin, and Ryan Rose.  Cooked some burgers had some laughs.  Then tonight we walked (along with Alley) downtown to watch the fireworks.  I love living this close to downtown, especially on days like this.  It was a nice walk both ways and it was even nicer not to have to worry about traffic.  

The fireworks were great as usual!  Here are a few shots I got of the evening.

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Nashville Zoo

So my friend Andrea has season passes to the Nashville Zoo.  She takes her niece, Alex all the time.  Yesterday I tagged along.  It was fun.  The animals are always interesting to watch.  I didn't get a lot of photos but I did get a few that I liked.

The birds were gorgeous.

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Hidden Treasures

It is always nice to get something like this from someone interested in my photography.  I'm just waiting for the day when they want to start paying me!  ha ha ha.

"Hi Paul,
I am the graphic artist for Appalachian Voices. We are a Non-Profit Environmental Organization in Boone, North Carolina. Currently we are working on our upcoming issue of our newspaper which features Pickett State Park as a "Hidden Treasure" of Appalachia. We saw that you had a couple photos of the Twin Arches in Pickett State park and I was wondering if we could use one of them within our issue. We will give credit to you in the issue as well. Feel free to email me back at meghan@-----------.org if you have any questions. Thank you! -Meghan"

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Hull Lake- at Defeated Creek

Did a little camping on Hull Lake just outside of Carthage, Tennessee on Friday night with some East Nashville friends.  We came back early because there were storms coming in, and we didn't think it would be that practical (or fun) to be in a tent when they hit.  Here are a few images I took on a short hike we had Saturday morning.  I love all the green this time of the year.

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Sunset on Percy Priest Lake

So I saw some photographs taken at Percy Priest Lake here in Nashville while looking through one of my groups on Flickr.  I asked the guy who took them where on the lake he had been when he took them.  He responded that it was at Hurricane Creek.  So I looked it up on the map and headed there with my GPS on Sunday, April 29.  The sunset was striking to say the least.  The colors changing as the sun sank down past the horizon.  Gorgeous and a peaceful evening.
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