Ahhh, as I sit here and sip on my ginger peach tea, I am finally starting to warm back up. I was outside for a little over two hours this morning in Chattanooga, tromping through mud to take measurements of all sorts. It was that nasty kind of mud that cakes onto your shoe in layers, so when you come out of the muck, you feel like you’re wearing a pair of very tall, very squishy platform shoes.
However, despite the cold and muddy conditions, I am pleased to report that I saw my first snowflake of the season! I was in the midst of a blizzard of ten flurries for about a minute. Of course, that is nothing compared to what Jason got in Columbia, or what Willis is getting in Nashvile. Grumble, grumble.
Steven and I finally got bored enough to go visit a little place up the road called Little River Canyon on Friday. I am so ashamed that I have lived here close to ten months and have waited so long to go see it. The canyon is amazing; so much more so than DeSoto Falls, which has always amused me greatly.
At the Canyon, there were more places to go and walk about. We followed a path along the side of the cliff for a while until we found a place to climb down into the canyon itself. So much stuff to see, and I didn’t have my camera! I would have gone bonkers if it had not been for Steven’s new camera phone, which he just got that very day. It does pretty good for a device where the camera is just the added feature instead of the main event.
For example, here I am in the canyon, selecting really good rocks:
The plan was for us to go back on Sunday, more expensive camera in hand, and get a bunch more shots, climb around, and generally have a blast. Of course, it rained for most of that day, and when we finally went (we were that bored), everywhere was wet and gloomy. There was a lot of water in the river though.
On Saturady we finally went to Nashville to visit the Willis. The city itself isn’t much to talk about except for the evil looking BellSouth skyscraper. I shot some pictures of it for editing later. It shall be spiffy.
And now I must be off, for I have been up since 5:30 am and I must read some intriguing books on database creation and administration. All landscape designers must know database creation and administration.