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27 Feb 10

(clockwise from top left) Felicia Scarpati-Lomax, Tiffanie Grier, Cardell Orrin and Desiree' Robertson are members of fastest growing demographic both locally and nationally -- people who identify themselves as two or more races.
   
Gene Williamson creates a massive snow ball while walking with his dog through Overton Park early Monday morning. Memphians arose a surprise winter wonderland with roughly six inches of snow covering the city overnight.
   
(l-r) Deirdre Daw and her daughter Lilly Bix-Daw, 10, try to trade shoes for cross-country skis without getting their socks wet while exploring Overton Park early Monday morning. Mid-Southerners were slapped with a snowy surprise Monday morning.
     
  
Jimmy Ogle really gets into a tour as he climbs into a Tulip Poplar tree known as the "Gnome Home" while helping with a free guided hike of the Old Forest at Overton Park. Ogle and Naomi Van Tol (not pictured) meet at the entrance to the forest by the Rainbow Lake parking lot at 10 am on the second Saturday and final Sunday of each month to take citizens for an up-close view of more than 330 plant species, including 60 different native tree species, within the historic park. For more information visit www.overtonparkforever.org.
   
A new world of shapes, colors and textures reveal themselves as Memphis begins to thaw out from the weekend ice storm. (clockwise from top left) Ice patterns in a street gutter, a green bench in Tom Lee Park, a weed along the banks of the Mississippi River and an ice pattern in an Overton Park field.
   
Michael Neal, 8, catches some big air as he launches off the sound booth platform at the Levitt Shell in Overton Park on Sunday. Families packed the park to get some last sledding in as the ice quickly began to melt with the Sunday sun.
     
  
Katrina Robertson (right), retail sales manager for Thistle Farms, shares tears with Sadaya Smith at the Mark Luttrell Correctional Center. Robertson, who is one of many success stories from the Nashville-based Magdalene program after being in and out of prison more than 20 times, visited the facility to preach a message of hope for the women incarcerated there.
   
Memphis firefighters battle a blaze at Buckman Laboratories at 1256 N. McLean around 7:30 in the morning. A blown transformer is suspected to be the cuase of the fire which spread to a wall of the structure. Despite propane tanks in close proximity, the fire did not spread and was knocked down in about 20 minutes. No injuries were reported.
   
Memphis TACT Unit officers clear a Ford Taurus that is suspected to be involved in two bank robberies before storming the building 1722 Chelsea in search of a suspect that got away. One man was later taken into custody at the edge of the Wolf River, north of the crash site, with the help of a police dog. Police were looking for at least one other suspect in the robberies, which investigators believe may be connected to earlier armed robberies in the Memphis area, including one Wednesday night.
     
  
A homeless man gathers his belongings from a cubby hole outside the old police station at Second and Adams downtown after officers woke him. The man did not wish to get help from officers who were trying to connect the homeless with aid organizations and wandered on his way down Second.
   
Joshua Beadle listens to the prosecutors closing arguments during his burglary trial in criminal court Division 7 on Thursday. Due to his reputation as a spitter in jail and the court room, Beadle has been outfitted with a nylon and mesh spit mask.Wednesday evening Beadle scuffled with two Detention Response Team members as they removed his "stun cuff" resulting in additional officers wearing body armor to be placed in the court room.
   
Former County Commissioner Joe Ford looks on as colors are presented prior to being sworn in as Shelby County's interim mayor in the commission chambers at the Shelby County Administration Building on Thursday. Ford will serve until Sept. 1, 2010, completing the unfinished term of A C Wharton who was elected city mayor in October.
     
  
Registered Nurse Jamie Taylor scrambles with other medical personnel in the Regional Medical Center at Memphis emergency room as they prepare a bed for a Code Blue patient arriving unresponsive by ambulance. The Shelby County Commission voted to give an additional $10 million in funding to the cash strapped Med.
   
Some tools of the tradition Japanese tea ceremony include the bowl, called a chawan, the tea scoop, called a chashaku, and the bamboo wisk to blend the tea with the water, called a chasen.
  
Kentaro Ohkuni prepares tea for Patti Lechman during a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Ohkuni is leading a ten week class to learn the art of the tea ceremony in the Ueda tradition at the Memphis Botanic Garden.