Bugs and recently-adopted Lana in the kitchen…

Lana is interested. Bugs is suspicious…

Lana in her coat on one of our really cold nights in January…
On the last Saturday in January, we drove out of Nashville through Cheatham County. Along the way, we hiked up Sydney's Bluff, a high bluff along the Cumberland River across from Ashland City, and to near Mound Bottom, an old indian city near the Narrows of the Harpeth.

Liza on top of Sydney's Bluff, looking back upriver towards Nashville.

View upriver. It's actually a LOT higher than it looks.

This is the best pic we could get of the largest mound at Mound Bottom. Despite being state-owned and with property being recently bought for donation to the State, only group tours of the site are given. It's on a very tight river bend surrounded by high cliffs, so you can only get really good glimpses from the road in winter. For more info, check out
the Wikipedia article…
We woke up the last week in January to find a light dusting of snow! These were pictures Liza got before work…

Our back porch…

the front of the house…

on the Woodland Street bridge, across which Liza has to walk every morning. Her building is the tan one straight ahead…

looking down at the train tracks running along the Cumberland near LP Field

the icy Cumberland

…at the plaza in front of the courthouse. Liza's building is the tall one on the left.
Annie turne ONE on Saturday. These are from her birthday party at John & Sarah Beth's.

Pushing her alligator walker thingie she got from Minnie and Panda for Xmas…

Does this seriousness look like John Downey's child?

She guesses it's okay since cousins Martha and Emma are involved…
Bugs is still unimpressed…

This has been her favorite pose since Liza left. She can't wait for the adventure she's going on tomorrow and Thursday. Then it's pig ear time with Pawpaw.