Hiking Nature

June 17, 2008.
There was more introspection than wildlife viewing this evening, although there was one wildlife sighting worthy of mention.
It was late dusk and I had finished hiking. I was walking down the Otter Creek Road hill, nearing Radnor Lake’s west parking lot, when I stopped to peer down at the spillway-fed creek. […]

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Sky, or Skyy (for she was initially named after my favorite vodka, back in my drinking days) – the wonderful, enlightened 30-lb. black (now with some gray) mixed-breed terrier I adopted from the Nashville Humane Society in 1996, is definitely my number one hiking buddy!
We’ve hiked together for 12 years now, mostly in Nashville and […]

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Monday evening, June 16, 2008

It was yet another wonderful dusk hike at Radnor Lake: beautiful, peaceful, a virtual meditation, actually. Towards the end of this dusk hike – around 8:15, I suppose– a woman approached me (shocking, I know!) and asked if I were me. I was quite pleased to tell her that I […]

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(Monday, June 16, 2008)

Since my father opted to watch Tiger Woods play golf in lieu of a loosely planned hike at 6:30 on Father’s Day Sunday (yesterday), he agree to hike this evening – perhaps out of guilt. That’s OK, though; any reason that successfully if temporarily puts Dad’s boots in contact with the […]

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By Stephen Frasier; Re: the Nashville Hiking Meetup Group’s Fiery Gizzard hike; Date: Saturday, June 8, 2008; Photos: Stephen Frasier, using Olympus Stylus 790 SW

This adult Northern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus) was found by the author while hiking the incredible, treacherous, beautiful Fiery Gizzard trail just outside Monteagle, Tennessee with the Nashville Hiking Meetup […]

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(NOTE: I am still working on some content and all the imagery. Please revisit soon.)

I finally made it to a Nashville Hiking Meetup group hike, thanks to Kelly; I agreed to go at such a late hour, there was simply insufficient time for this socially paranoid introvert to come up with a plausible excuse not […]

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(NOTE: After you’ve enjoyed these images to your satisfaction, tap your browser’s ‘refresh’ button to see additional images; the pics shown here are pulled at random from categorized image folders, so there are more photos to see. ALSO: I’m still working on the Fiery Gizzard post and related pics; please check back.)

Without detailing the […]

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Events from the momentous hike on Tuesday, June 3, 2008

After proceeding up the steep climb at Ganier Ridge (“hill 4”), I turned around and began to retrace my steps to the car. Although I’d intended to hike the full 4.5-mile loop this morning, the bountiful environs encompassing Radnor Lake had already yielded so many […]

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All photos in this post were taken at Nashville’s Radnor Lake and edited on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 by Stephen Frasier using an Olympus Stylus 790 SW and Macromedia/Adobe Fireworks MX 2004; author’s email is stephen [at] bestWebNashville [dot] com

Now that the summer heat has set in, hiking early in the morning is an […]

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