Blue Skies

Well... fortunately, the Chicken Littles that we call weathermen around here were wrong yet again (though my experience at the grocery store on Thursday evening indicates that they did manage to sell lots of beer and bread). The storm didn't stall out over us as predicted. Some people lost power (ours was out for about an hour on Thursday) and there was some flooding in the usual parts of town. But the rain was over by the wee hours of Friday morning and today was a beautiful, clear, sunny day -- nice enough to enjoy a walk through Coolidge Park and across the Walnut Street Bridge. I took the photo of the park at right from the north side of the bridge (you can see that the river is pretty high and muddy).

I took the picture below from the south side of the bridge. In the foreground is the Riverset Apartments in downtown. There are two sets of glass peaks behind them: first the Aquarium Expansion, which is still under construction, and then the Tennessee Aquarium itself. In the background is Elder Mountain (aka Raccoon Mountain).