Random Collection of Pictures June 2025

June was uneventful as far as trips or family meetings. Which is ok because sometimes we need to sit back and enjoy where we are now planted.

I did make a trip to Sparta for the June board of directors meeting for the Tennessee Library Association. Whew - that was a long meeting (contracts, bylaws, etc). Caught a view of a cloud inversion over the Sequatchie Valley on the way to Sparta.

In June, I prepare for Park and Recreation Month by visiting a local park as a focus point.  I chose the Sculpture Fields at Montague Park. I took a few photos of the sculptures for my guide. Also a good view of Lookout Mountain in the background.

 

A random selfie I took while walking on campus

I found this interesting guide to storing condiments.
 

G and I go to Western Sizzlin occasionally in the the next county to our west - which is also in Central Time so we can leave late and still be early for lunch. Here is the view of the Southern Appalachians from the parking lot.

I dug up one of my columns from Tennessee PTA newsletters to share with incoming officers about what I learned about leadership - specifically the differences between leadership and management.

 I ordered more Sandzen note cards from Lindsborg, Kansas. There is a Sandzen gift shop located there.

Father's Day was in June! Got a nice ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. And G took me on a road I took before from Stevenson, Alabama and over the top of Sand Mountain to Trenton, Georgia. A nice short day trip. I took a bit more time to admire the Snodgrass bridge structure over the Tennessee River near Stevenson.

 

 

I added text to a picture of Teter Rock for my Instagram account. 

The City of Lawrence corrected a wrong and did the right thing - the Sacred Red Rock was returned to the Kaw Nation. Now it took a while to get the stone prepared and moved and reinstalled. The “Sacred Red Rock” is a twenty-eight-ton red, quartzite boulder of long-held spiritual and cultural significance to the people of the Kaw Nation. The stone was moved from its original location to Lawrence in 1929. Now the stone is in Kaw Nation. A picture of Kaw Nation Memorial.

The Kaw Nation Memorial is adjacent to the Flint Hills Trail State Park. The trail was honored as Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's Hall of Fame in August 2025. 

Random Collection of Pictures May 2025

One of my favorite new things to do - explore the random pictures I save to share here. For the month of May there are more article clippings than in the previous posts.

From the year 1955, a sentence about moving houses to make way for the creation of  Webster Lake.

A dark cloud overhead on campus. Will be nice to wear short sleeve shirts again!

We went to nearby Dunlap to see if there was any water flowing at the Cagle waterfall - very little was streaming.

The Chattanooga area is blessed with cool sculptures. This one is at a city park near the Tennessee River.

Probably something I will never see, Teter Rock, a human made monolith used in the past as a guide for travelers but now as an off-road adventure to check-off for many. Located in the Flint Hills of Greenwood County.

Railfan me. I think this is just a stunning picture of a train in the Nebraska sandhill region. A promotional picture for a YouTube video about the train moving through this part of Nebraska.

I found this blurb fascinating about US Highway 72 which begins/ends nearby me in Chattanooga. It begins in Tennessee, goes through Alabama (Huntsville) and then through Mississippi, and returns to Tennessee to end/begin in Memphis. This is my go-to route to travel to Memphis and avoiding the Interstate (Nashville). It is a four-lane highway for the entire trip.

Not aware that US Highway 83 is still a Canada to Mexico highway and is called a road to nowhere. Looking at it on a map - it does avoid a lot of big cities. Been on it a few times (Oberlin, Oakley, Garden City, North Platte, McCook, Valentine, Pierre). 

Random Collection of Pictures April 2025

 Finally completing the month of April 2025 with some random pictures. 

Finally completed the reorganization of the office / storage area by putting this new storage shelves together. Really pleased with the increased office space and the tidiness of the storage space.

Presented a workshop at the Tennessee Library Association annual conference on Data Storytelling.

I had an added ribbon to my conference credentials -- official smarty pants LOL

The awesome library department team acting normal ha ha

The pink moon on April 13 streaming through the bedroom window

Past presidents of the Tennessee PTA who attended the Tennessee PTA annual meeting

April was Poetry Month - my display of poetry books for the library.

On my wish list to drive through some day in addition to seeing Lake Scott State Park (and the nearby Monument Rocks). Kansas Highway 95 cuts through the Ogallala Formation south of Lake Scott. The Ogallala is a massive layer of sand and gravel. In many places the Ogallala is unconsolidated, but in this area it is cemented into solid rock.