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A Banner Day at Radnor Lake: Tuesday, June 3, 2008

June 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

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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Tags: Radnor Lake · canada goose · great blue herons · turtles

Radnor Lake Turtles Active on Cold December Day

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: canada goose · great blue herons · turtles

Slippery When Wet: A Rainy Radnor Lake Hike

September 9th, 2007 · No Comments

This particular hike was long overdue. I have blown off my favorite pastime of late, having proffered the excuse that my part-time landscape maintenance work made up for it. It didn’t.

I watched the radar closely throughout the day, thrilled by the rain and hoping for a break in the precipitation near dusk. Weather.com’s [...]

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Tags: Radnor Lake · deer · great blue herons · owls

Radnor Lake: A Model Clockwise Hike

August 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Kelly and I met at 12:30 in the Radnor Lake parking lot on the Granny White side. He was wearing a Wordpress t-shirt (this blog is powered by Wordpress); I might be lucky enough to have one, had I made it to Barcamp Nashville. If it were a color other than red, I [...]

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Tags: Radnor Lake · deer · great blue herons · skink