THE SPECTACLE BEFORE US WAS INDEED SUBLIME
“The Spectacle before us was indeed Sublime” – A Trip To Venus, John Munro, (1897) A technical task brings to mind a pleasant memory I love the ornate language that John Munro used here. I had never heard of his book “A Trip to Venus”, but I suppose it has gained some fame because it is […]
Who Knew???
I find it almost unbelievable that we have lived here for just shy of 40 years now and are still discovering special things that our area has to offer. Sure, we have always enjoyed the Smoky Mountains, have frequently taken advantage of our Tennessee state parks, and camped and hiked with our family through the years, […]
2018 SANDHILL CRANE EXCURSION
Last January (2017), Marcy and I enjoyed a day trip to the Hiwassee River Sandhill Crane Festival hosted in the little town of Birchfield, Tennessee. Along with Marcy and me, there were hundreds of other bird watchers queued up at the local high school to be ferried by school buses to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources […]
WINTER SATURDAY DAY TRIP
We saw pictures of a beautifully frozen Bald River Falls the other day and figured we might drive over on Saturday to get our own pictures. The thermometer was showing 5 degrees in the early morning and we talked ourselves out of that, but we did settle on a quick trip to Cades Cove for […]
The Regular Crowd Shuffles in …
Snatches from Billy Joel’s song “The Piano Man” came to mind as we fell in line behind the other cars queueing up at the Cades Cove Loop Road gate. The “crowd shuffling in” song lyrics didn’t fit the happy story of our day, but Billy Joel is what played in my mind when I reflected on […]
RAINY DAY IN PISA
Again I reflect on our winter trip to Italy. The latitude in Tuscany roughly equivalent to Milwaukee but the Mediterranean climate brought signs of early spring to the February landscape. We were fortunate to start with a stretch of sunny cool days, but as our trip wound to a close on Saturday, March 4th, spring […]
