Some days you wake up with an idea in your head. A year ago today that idea was Nashville.

Michigan's Nashville's a village on the edge of Barry County. It's not a big place--about 1600 souls--but it sprawls along the Thornapple River in a fashion that gives the impression of a rather larger community. The long central business district, in particular, seems like the heart of a small city, stretching most of a mile on M-66.

My specific idea was to find some photographs in Putnam Park, but the park turned out to be less interesting than I remembered. So I walked down Main Street with my camera, photographing the businesses as I passed them; one of those became the 366 Snaps photo. Then I ducked behind the storefronts on the west side, where I remembered a ballyard and the river--and found a ballyard and the river. I'd forgot the long parking lot, though.

I also found these stairways....

The town was named for a railroad engineer, which hardly explains anything. For several years there was a country music park just west of town, but it turned out this Nashville's too far from everywhere to make that profitable.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 16
Title of "roll:" Nashville
Other photos taken on 10/3/2012: none.