Tag: 2011

After a pleasant Mother’s Day dinner.

These photos are from Saturday. The water is up on sandbags now at this Mud Island school.

Fite Road near Hwy 51 in northern Shelby County.

Today, Memphis experienced one of those southern California climate days.

It was almost enough to forget that the Mississippi River is 12 feet over flood stage and I-40 is closed between Brinkley and Hazen due to the rising water.

This is the last week of the semester with all of the students on campus.

Hopefully, these sandbags at the Maria Montessori School on Mud Island will protect the lower classroom, if the water rises that high.

We are now over 42′ on the Mississippi River. Flood stage is 34′. We are heading to at least 48′ and likely higher.

This is the Maria Montessori School on Mud Island that is already at about 5′ from flooding a classroom.

These windows make up the north side of Barret Library at Rhodes College.

For the young, affluent professional that has everything.

The Mississippi River is rising quickly. These trees on Mud Island are actually on a hill that slopes to the river and are rarely underwater in the spring.

From hail to clear skies and a perfect day in less than 24 hours.

I love Memphis!

As a punctuation mark on our wacky weather recently, today it hailed pea-sized chunks for several minutes.

On a rainy, stormy day in Memphis, I’m thinking of this bridge near Gunner Pool in Arkansas and wondering how high the Sylamore Creek is right now.

Go Grizz! We are up 2-1 on the series, and a win tonight would put us in the driver’s seat.

We got a bit of rain (though, no “baseball-sized hail”), but the riding was excellent!

Dave and I traveled to the Sylamore section of the Ozark National Forest.

In this photo, we are trying to weave our way through the hummingbirds at the door of Cody’s Restaurant in Fifty Six, Arkansas, to get some dinner.

I like this perspective of the staircase in the building where I work.

While it is too cloudy to tell time, this sundial is on the side of the Physics Tower.

Jacob and Ethan with the Easter Bunny on Saturday. Ethan doesn’t know what to make of it.

Ethan and Pat Pennington, at Jacob’s game last Saturday.