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Let's start the day by learning something new. This seems like a good
place to be for a guy who recently went shopping in The Pearl District and
spent a night in The Pearl Room.
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I've photographed this mural in Dickson, TN, multiple times, and I did it
again today. The mural hasn't changed much. but the business in the
building it's on definitely has. When I was last here, it was a gallery
and event space. It is now a restaurant. I stepped across the street to
photograph the not-quite-open-for-the-day restaurant and grabbed a shot of
the good looking Christmas tree while I was there.
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I followed US-70 into Nashville, TN, and past the honky tonks to the foot
of Broadway. There, I turned left while US-70 turned right and headed east.
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This renovated motel was one of the stops on last year's SCA gathering in
Nashville. It's on my "to stay" list and that stay almost could
have been today. When I left Jackson this morning, the GPS predicted I
would be home well before 5:00. Of course, it was thinking that I'd be
driving a lot more expressways than was actually the case. As I drove down
Broadway, a church bell was ringing out noon and it occurred to me that
the GPS might be a full day off. 12:20 was a little too early to end the
day or I might have spent Friday night here.
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In the days before Christmas, I'd been on the lookout for trees I could
use as background for the Christmas Day page. Now they were everywhere. It
was the tree in Franklin, KY, that first caught my attention, but it was
the three friends taking a break from their ride on an amazinglt warm
December day that convinced me to circle back around for pictures. The
horse of shows was a bonus.
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Earlier on this trip, I listened to a Science Friday podcast in which
Corina Newsome, of the National Wildlife Federation, talked about large
gatherings of blackbirds, including vultures. She said that rather than
seeing them as bad omens, as many people do, they should be considered
good thins since it means that there is habitat available to support them.
To be honest, she was talking about flocks of thousands of birds in trees
and parking lots. Whether having this not yet occupied home south of
Bowling Green, KY, guarded by vultures should be considered a selling
point is unclear.
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This is where Horse Shoe Camp Cabins once stood. I had heard it had been
leveled, and now that I have seen it for myself, maybe I can quit stopping
for pictures every time I pass and mourning what might have been.
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I'd checked earlier, and knew that Wigwam Village #2 in Cave City, KY, was
closed for the winter. Otherwise, I would have almost certainly stopped
for the night.
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It was now time to get serious about getting home today. At the next
opportunity, I pulled onto the expressway and set off to travel like all
those folks in a hurry do: cruise control set and one exit for food from
a drive through. That one exit occurred between these pictures.
About thirty miles into my expressway drive, I hit a severe slowdown. It
never quite came to a full stop, but speed was into single digits. I took
the first picture about a mile later. Another damaged car was off the road
on the far side of the southbound lanes with a few people sitting in the
grass nearby. How, or even if, the two vehicles had connected is unknown.
Past the overturned car, things opened up almost immediately. I pulled off
at the next exit for my drive through dinner. Southbound traffic had not
opened up, but was at a complete standstill. In returning to the
expressway, I witnessed a couple of near accidents as drivers spotted the
stopped traffic and made panicked u-turns on the on ramp. The lines of
stopped cars ended just before the second photo, more than two miles from
the overturned vehicle.
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