Hiking Nature

Mike E. invited me for a hike at Radnor Lake today (Tuesday, April 14, 2010). It was sunny and 84 degrees F as we hiked. It almost seems as though we skipped spring this year and jumped right into summer temperatures. However, it must be a banner spring for plants, as I cannot recall such [...]

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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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These very short videos of a Canada Goose nesting at Radnor Lake in Nashville, Tennessee were shot on Thursday, March 27, 2008. Sadly, the goose and most of the eggs had disappeared by March 31; it appears the goose was taken by a predator.
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Wow, the next few weeks are going to be fascinating — assuming things go swimmingly for the pair of Canada geese that built their nest on Monday (March 24) afternoon and into the evening. (Scroll down for YouTube video of the mother goose nesting.) What a location: the nest is about 15 or 20 feet [...]

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Upon awakening, I found that my desire to hike on this cold day had faded. I was actually considering cancelling this afternoon’s planned hike. A couple of hours later, I was looking forward to it. A hearty thanks goes out to my shrink and his prescription pad.
After reading a few pages of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, I looked [...]

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