Category - Digest

I rather like Nashville Mayor Karl Dean. He’s the least politiciany politician I think I’ve met. Except for Mary Mancini. Actually, most politicians seem like normal people when you meet them in person. Except John Edwards. That guy just oozed sliminess.

I imagine being the Mayor of America’s 25th largest city is a 24/7 job… so here’s the mayor on a sunny spring Sunday afternoon, casually dressed for a change, pulling the chord on the railroad whistle to announce the opening of the Farmers Market.

mayor Dean aka @Moon_Nashville blows the whistle to open the #FarmersMarket @AmquiStation in #MadisonTN #Nashville
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Amqui Station Farmer’s Market

June 1, 2014

Last Sunday (June 1) I went out to Madison (aka “Northeast Nashville”) to help my friend Nancy Van Reece with some photo coverage of the inaugural Farmer’s Market at the Amqui Station – a vintage railroad depot that Johnny Cash once owned and donated to the city before he died. The depot has been turned into a museum an rec center in the middle of one of the area’s parks, and will host a farmer’s market every Sunday through the summer.

Unfortunately I was totally lax about getting people’s names. Have to work on that…

Setting up the #FarmersMarket @AmquiStation in #MadisonTN #Nashville
http://amquistation.org#johnnysaysthankyou #farmersmarket #felfie #nashville #organic #picktn #food #foodie #locavore #trainstation #johnnycash #madisontn @foodporn #foodgasm #foodbaby #yummy #hungry #cleaneating #breakfast #lunch #dinner #foodpicks #yum #photooftheday #fitness #digest ©2014 [email protected] aka @driver49

The Night Stair

May 30, 2014

Once there was a stairwell here, which the monks of the Melrose Abbey would descend every morning from their dormitory behind the doorway for their morning prayers. Then they would return to the dormitory to get the rest of their night’s sleep. No telling where those stones are now…in the wall of somebody’s stately home, perhaps…

The Night Stair 140530Since yesterday’s post was so well received, here’s another from the “Portals Of Stone” series – Melrose Abbey in @ScotBorders region. The monks lived in a dormitory behind the upper doorway, and descended the now extinct stairs at 2AM every day for morning prayers.
The GPS Coordinates are 55.5980° N, 2.7310° W since Instagram will only let me tag “nearby” locations, and I’m not there now…. <*sigh*> more at http://ift.tt/1koYz4J
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Rosslyn In The Stars – The Instagram Version

May 29, 2014

Digest, photography, travel

So maybe I mentioned that I’m throwing a lot of my photos in a “frame” and posting them to Instagram, to see what sort of Legion of Followers I can find there. Last week I posted this version of “Rosslyn In The Stars” – the Portals Of Stone of a sunrise/exterior photo of this 15th century chapel a few miles south of Edinburgh which was the location of the final scene in the book and movie “The DaVinci Code.”

Rosslyn In The Stars @Rosslynchapel @visitscotland @GreatBritain @TwitterUK @NASA_Hubble @instagood #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Midlothian

Are You On Instagram?

May 28, 2014

@visitscotland @GreatBritain @TwitterUK @EdinCulture
#RoyalMile #Edinburgh #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Midlothian #brilliantmoments #travel #ig_europe #photooftheday #thebest_capture #ig_masterpiece #nuriss_tag #castle #abandon #wall #stonewall #stones #wildlife #springtime #coast #beautiful #architecture #awesome #nofilter #travel
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#GoT Humor

May 27, 2014

Digest

I saw this on Instagram yesterday and had to share it with my network. I don’t think this is the real George R. R. Martin, but can’t say for sure. You have to be familiar with the last two seasons of the show to get the joke.

#westeros #GameOfThrones #GoT #digest #WinOrDie #fantasy #medieval #middleages #ironthrone @acastofkings

#Scotland: The Writers Museum / Edinburgh

May 27, 2014

Digest, photography, travel

We have one of those digital photo frames on the counter in our kitchen. It’s loaded with all the photos from our trip to Scotland in October, 2012. Ann turned it on over the weekend, and I kept seeing this image. It was shot through a window at The Writers Museum on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland (which may be my favorite place in the world). There is probably a name for this effect, with the circular lens in the middle of the pane and the geometric distortions all around it, but I can’t think of it at the moment.

#ViewFromYourWindow @visitscotland @GreatBritain @TwitterUK @EdinCulture
#RoyalMile #Edinburgh #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #brilliantmoments #travel #ig_europe #photooftheday #thebest_capture
#ig_masterpiece #digest

#Nashville: Bobbie’s Dairy Dip

May 26, 2014

We mostly knocked around the house and worked in the yard/gardens (well, Ann did, mostly) over the Memorial Day Weekend, but Monday we got out and went for a drive in the country (oh, how I missed my convertible…). We went southwest from Pegram, into a bucolic area of Williamson County called “Fernvale,” through Leiper’s Fork and then into Franklin for an early dinner of Hot Chicken and cornbread at Gray’s On Main. Then we took the long scenic route up Old Hillsboro Road back into town to top the evening off with a stop at Bobbie’s Dairy Dip, our favorite soft ice cream stand near Sylvan Park.

OK, NOW it is #summer in#nashville #icecream #hotfudge #butterscotch #malt #digest

#Scotland: Urquhart Castle / Loch Ness

May 26, 2014

Digest, photography, travel