So last weekend I spent Friday-Monday in Memphis, Tennessee. Not particularly one of my favorite places in the state, but it turned out to be a great time!
I was there for conference. I stayed at the Peabody, which was really nice and very enjoyable.
The ducks were cute of course, and it is very centrally located.
I got to see my roommate John Stephany from my 2008 China trip (first time since then) and it was a good time all around. Here are some of the photos from the trip.
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I love downtown Nashville! There was WEIRD light again after the storm so I ran downtown and stayed for a couple of hours. The colors are pretty nice.(Click the pic)
I drove home from work today and took a couple of back roads to avoid traffic. I ended up passing the Bicentennial Mall as I drove on Jefferson Street and I saw storms coming in (they actually never arrived where I was...) and decided to turn around since I had my camera with me and take some photographs. I also got some great shots of the red bud trees in FULL bloom. They were gorgeous! The lighting was so strange as the sun was setting and the storm clouds rolled in...which created the strange light. The clouds were amazing as well. So here are some of the photos from this outing. (Click the pic)
I took a personal day from school today. It was a little rainy when Alley and I went for a walk this morning, but it was nice and warm and just a nice day to chill out and relax doing nothing. We slept in and then took off through our normal walking areas looking for Spring Blooms...there were plenty already out in full force. I just had my iPhone and got a few shots I'm including here.
I headed down to Alabama in February and grab a few shots around Florence (Central area) and here are some of the shots. There are a couple from Minor Hill, Tennessee as well.It was one of those warm days of winter we experienced throughout the winter of 2011-2012.(Click the pic)
So I took off down to Miami for my 45th birthday. It was so nice and warm (80s in the day, mid 70s at night). We went to South Beach, and Ft. Lauderdale, and stayed in Hollywood with my friend Daniel Roberts. (Tim Doty went with me). Even though it was a little over cast it was nice and warm the whole time we were there.
So as 2011 comes to a close, I looked back through the photographs that I have taken this year.
I compiled them in to a "favorites" set, which is never easy to do. But these were photos that I felt were a little more unique in some way. Perhaps it was a new place I'd never photographed, or it was a place I had photographed numerous times, but saw it in a new way on a particular day and snapped a shot. It is amazing what all has happened in the past year, and all the places I have visited. We had an unusual amount of snow back in the previous winter, the cicadas came out of their 13 year sleep, and I had two friends and a niece get married this year, and they asked me to take photos of these special occasions. I visited, San Diego, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and made it all the way to Greece and Turkey this year. In addition to these larger trips, I had a great time visiting several of the beautiful state parks here in Tennessee and city parks here in Nashville. Over all 2011 was an excellent year, and here's hoping that 2012 is even better! Happy New Year!
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