Never too old to travel!
As if it could read the Weekly Photo Challenge for this week — Off-season — my White Star White Magnolia produced a surprise bloom on fully green branches in the 90-degree summer weather yesterday. It didn’t stay pretty long, however. This unseasonable delicate blossom crisped up quickly in the unrelenting heat. So, for contrast, here’s […]
Read More…This week, I’m traveling to 12 quilt shops participating in the annual East Tennessee Shop Hop. And although I grew up watching my mom make quilts, these new fabrics in somewhat traditional patterns are nothing like what she put together. (But she’d love them, no doubt.) The vivid colors and contemporary patterns are the inspiration of […]
Read More…For those of you familiar with our blog, you know that we traveled to the country of Lesotho to build a Habitat for Humanity house. But when a coup against the government forced us to evacuate the country, we found shelter in nearby Clarens, South Africa. Worn out with waiting, worrying, and packing so hurriedly, […]
Read More…Could be that we’ve had Nepal on our minds lately, but the word for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken just seems appropriate for that country right now. Not that we have any additional news. But just looking through our pictures taken in 2011 makes us realize that what we saw then may not even be […]
Read More…In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Intricate.” The Taj Mahal is known for intricate design, inlays, and details. But this stitched version seen in a tapestry shop in India caught our tour group’s attention: fine detail executed in tiny stitches in an exquisite wall hanging. Not surprisingly, there was no price on […]
Read More…Why would you want to just stand and watch the motion when you can ride a horse and move like the wind?! Or run with the wind on Chattanooga’s Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge? Childhood = Constant Motion! Want to put a little motion in your life? Move on over to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: […]
Read More…You have to be an early bird if you want to buy greens on Opening Day of the Lakeshore Park Farmers Market. And as just as we suspected, Abundant Acres from McMinn County, Tennessee, sold out early, leaving one bunch of kale from what the sign revealed: “This is what I did have.” Sad but undaunted, […]
Read More…Knoxville’s Dogwood Arts Festival Chalk Walk frequently receives entries showing something afloat. If nothing else, those of us with little artistic talent feel as if we’re floating as we walk between the chalk drawings simply amazed that anyone can stay hunched over for a day creating art that we could only dream of doing. Here’s […]
Read More…You’ve felt like this, right? Especially on a Monday. Especially after a holiday weekend. Dates. Schedules. Appointments. So much to do. So little time. Work, family, fun. And what day is today anyway? Life’s a blur. Right? Art Source 2015: A Knox County Art Educators Exhibition A Dogwood Arts Festival event at the UT Downtown Gallery, […]
Read More…From bud to full opening, the glory of this flower — called Saucer Magnolia, Chinese Magnolia, Japanese Magnolia — comes upon us quickly and lasts only a few, albeit fabulous, days. All too often, brisk winds and sudden drops in temperature take their toll, and the glory fades sooner than the already short bloom […]
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