Nashville!

This week I was in Nashville with work, giving a presentation on some of our sampling protocols (real exciting stuff). It was a quick trip but we did get to spend about an hour walking around Broadway which was pretty cool. It was awesome how you could hear live performers singing and playing music from pretty much every restaurant even at 4:00 in the afternoon. In the airport there was a guy singing and playing the guitar at a little restaurant. He was pretty good and we got to listen for quite a while thanks to our plane being delayed. The coolest part of the trip was that the 13 year cicadas were out. The shear volume of them all humming together was AMAZING! It made me want to crawl up in a hammock and take a nap. Some of the field workers said the coolness of it wore off fast when your ears were ringing by the end of the day if you had to be outside all day long. It was still pretty awesome. It amazes me that these things live in the ground as pupae for 13 years before they emerge!!



Water baiting demonstration



The swollen Columbia River. That is suppose to be the riverwalk.



13 year cicadas were out.