Pictures from an Expedition

[icepixie]

Yesterday I went out to Beaman and Bells Bend Parks, as well as to part of the Metro Greenway at Two Rivers Park. All of these are new to me, as well as new in general, having come along in the past decade or so. Beaman is basically Radnor Lake Park writ large, with root-studded dirt trails in and along forested ridges and hollows (and, admittedly, without a lake, though there is a stream and in spring, supposedly some very nice waterfalls), while Bells Bend is farmland left to go to seed in a bend of the Cumberland River. The part of the greenway I went on basically consisted of a spiffy new pedestrian bridge over the same river.



Standing not quite in the creek at Beaman. It appears to have a slate bottom, which makes it look sort of creepily man-made.



Red mushrooms!



Bells Bend now. The nature center has some corn.





Relic of the old farm.



Tennessee attempting to masquerade as Kansas. Plus a lonely little cloud.



Photoshopped version of that same landscape. The black corners are less Photoshop than me not screwing my neutral density filter on tightly enough. Oops. On the other hand, they contributed a nice old-timey effect.



Lens flares! I am totally J.J. Abrams!



Wild sunflower...things...down by the river.





Lonely little birdhouse.



Really, really lonely.



Thistle! I didn't realize they got so big; this one was basically as tall as me.



DO NOT MESS WITH THIS TREE. Google tells me it's a honey locust, which exist all over the eastern third of the country, but I've never seen one. I think it will haunt my nightmares. It looks like something Tim Burton might have come up with.



The branches have thorns too.



The thorns have thorns.



Now we're at the bridge, about 20 miles west of the two parks. That's Opryland's General Jackson steamboat.





Cumberland River.



Bridge with excellent clouds.

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

It appears to have a slate bottom, which makes it look sort of creepily man-made.

Woah, really? Because those are uncannily perpendicular lines. It looks kind of amaaaaaazing for creeking, though!

The black corners are less Photoshop than me not screwing my neutral density filter on tightly enough.

Shhhhh! Totally artiste! Totally!

Wtf, Tim Burton Tree, are you serious??! (Judging by the thorns, I have a pretty good guess at its answer.)

Cumberland River.

Oooooooooh. Somehow the depth of that shot is just boggling.

Bridge with excellent clouds.

I would call that clouds with an excellent bridge. If you hadn't said anything, I wouldn't've noticed the sky. : )

[icepixie]

Woah, really? Because those are uncannily perpendicular lines.

They ARE, aren't they? They look like a concrete sidewalk. But nope, slate. You can tell it's actually rock rather than concrete in real life, as the plates aren't entirely smooth.

It looks kind of amaaaaaazing for creeking, though!

It might be! It was shallow for as long as I followed it. Really shallow--like, not even over the toe of my boots shallow. Of course, it is the beginning of October...

Shhhhh! Totally artiste! Totally!

*puts on beret and twirly mustache*

Wtf, Tim Burton Tree, are you serious??! (Judging by the thorns, I have a pretty good guess at its answer.)

SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK. Or at least a good pricking.

Oooooooooh. Somehow the depth of that shot is just boggling.

Thanks. :)

I would call that clouds with an excellent bridge. If you hadn't said anything, I wouldn't've noticed the sky. : )

Heh. The bridge looks really cool from the interstate overpass, but I wasn't actually very thrilled with it up close. Maybe it was because it triggered my fear of heights-over-water and I couldn't actually enjoy walking on it.