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East TN Quilt Shop Hop (Part II): Fresh new looks!

One thing I learned after writing my first post on the 2020 East TN Quilt Shop Hop was that all ten of the participating shops have something new to share — a new technique, a quilting gizmo to make your life easier, or new fabrics (lighter and brighter, by the way!) to liven up the […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence in a Garden

Although much of the U. S. (especially in the South) is blanketed with snow this week, many of us are dreaming of gardens lush and lovely. Last spring, in Knoxville, one homeowner opened his garden during the Dogwood Arts Festival garden tour. It was a chance for those of us who love flora and fauna to […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Clancy’s — repurposed and classy!

A recent Knoxville event, Chef’s Table Tour, came with a surprise . . . an unexpected one. After strolling downtown sidewalks listening to bits of history from our guide, we ducked into Clancy’s Tavern & Whisky House ready for good food and a sip of the Irish. But what we saw redefined this downtown corner for […]

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Beauty close to home: Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

Sometimes we travel near and far in search of adventures and great places to see, but actually there’s grand beauty in East Tennessee that we sometimes take for granted. Thus it was on a recent weekend that we headed north about 60 miles from Knoxville to Cumberland Gap for a glimpse of what we hoped […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place

This may sound a bit like the venerable Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities, but we actually have two happy places to submit to this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge. Our foremost happy place is Knoxville, Tennessee, where we’ve lived for nearly half a century! In 2013, artist Bobbie Crews led a group of […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse

Cades Cove, Tennessee, is glorious. With 6800 acres of quiet, rolling, tucked-away land in the Great Smoky Mountains, the cove holds the widest variety of historic buildings of any national park, but it’s the rough-hewn, still-standing cabins that we love most. If you’re lucky enough to get up early on a Saturday morning and bike along the […]

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The commanding gardens of Dr. Alan Solomon, a Dogwood Featured Garden 2015

(We are re-publishing this post from 2015 since Dr. Solomon’s garden will be open for touring as a Dogwood Arts Featured Garden again this year, 2017. For more information on times and location, click here.) Perhaps one of the most magnificent areas in the Knoxville area, Dr. Alan Solomon’s gardens opens up a forest of […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion

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: […]

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Chalk one up for fun: Dogwoods Arts 2014 — Chalk Walk

We are republishing this post on the 2014 Dogwoods Arts Chalk Walk since the 2015 event will take place this Saturday, April 11. After you see these fabulous designs in chalk, we know you’ll want to be there on Market Square in Downtown Knoxville to see what the artists produce this year. One of our […]

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Almost open: Dogwood Arts Festival 2015

April 1st is when it really opens up around here. Tulips, daffodils, azaleas, and, of course, dogwoods — which bring on one of the loveliest festivals in the South: the Dogwood Arts Festival. It’s definitely not a one-day affair. Knoxville, Tennessee, springs to life as blooms come out in full force. From the painted […]