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Suzie Hall’s Dogwood Open Garden 2015

One word could pretty much sum up the garden of Suzie Hall in South Knoxville: woodsy. One of the many Dogwood Arts Open Gardens that allowed visitors to roam freely through a private space during the Dogwood Arts Festival designated times, Suzie’s garden is unique for its shade gardening opportunities and natural elements like boulders, tall […]

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Lane Hays’s Garden: A Dogwood Featured Garden 2015

Although it’s been several years since we last visited the lovely gardens of Lane Hays, we relished the thought of spending quiet time roaming this extensive lakeside property artfully enhanced by Lane’s vision and creativity. Set on the banks of Fort Loudon Lake in Knoxville, the gardens were begun in 1992 using natural elements of […]

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Day trippin’ at Palouse Falls State Park

There’s something about a waterfall. Especially one that cascades 200 feet over a bold precipice, rushing to join the Snake River, eventually making its way through deep cuts of rock. Perhaps it’s the rush of water. Or the spray. Or the sound. Whatever it is, you can’t avert your eyes — at least for a […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

This week’s WordPress challenge — Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life — brought me back to Las Vegas where I remembered streets filled with happy people seeking something quite different from what they experience at home. Some “streets” were really overpasses where pedestrians crossed over to the other side or paused to look below at the traffic. […]