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Red Honda on the Dragon’s Run
Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | Best Of, Photos | Permalink | 3 Comments |
Overexposed yellow
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | Best Of, Photos | Permalink | No Comments |
Playing with a WordPress feature. I set the maximum “medium” image size to 600 pixels in either height or width. By default WordPress resizes the photo to that size for the inline image. If you click on the image you get the actual size I uploaded, which is 800 pixels wide in this case.
Picture taken at Buckhorn Inn outside of Gatlinburg.
Can anyone ID these lilies?
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | Best Of, Photos | Permalink | 7 Comments |
LATER: Consensus in comments is that it’s a spider lily. Here’s another picture from the same day and same garden that’s more characteristic of spider lilies.
Fifth Wedding Anniversary Trip to Jonesborough, TN
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 | Best Of, East Tennessee | Permalink | 1 Comment |
Saturday was our fifth wedding anniversary. (Happy anniversary, babe.) It was Saturday five years before that we got married in Jonesborough, the oldest city in Tennessee. We got married at Mill Spring Park and had the reception across the street at The Wedding Loft, a gorgeous 19th century building where the staff took care of all of the wedding arrangements.
We reserved the Eureka Inn for our friends and family. After the wedding and reception we had a party on the second story porch. The wedding was fun but stressful for us - with that behind us the party on the porch was the best part of the day.
We stayed next door at the Blair-Moore House, a bed and breakfast that dates to the early 1800s. Their Web page lists accolades for their breakfast from Southern Living and Inn Traveler and they’re well-deserved. Our breakfast this morning was a plate of fresh fruit (champagne grapes, strawberries, diced mango, and peach drizzled with French honey), smoked ham, egg frittata with homegrown Roma tomatoes and fresh basil, stuffed French toast with choice of maple syrup or cherry syrup, blueberry-coconut muffins, bacon, fresh mango-papaya-orange juice, and coffee. Absolutely delicious.
The upstairs Western-Native American Room where I stayed the night before the wedding has a second story balcony overlooking the street. The lower Victorian suite where Melissa and I stayed after our wedding and for our anniversary has a street level porch off of the parlor. The Victorian Room upstairs has a rear-facing porch overlooking the garden at the rear:
Cost for these rooms isn’t much more than you’d pay at a good chain hotel (between $125 and $160 per night) and includes that amazing breakfast, the hosts wonderful hospitality, and conversation with other guests over breakfast. At those prices why stay at a boring old hotel?
More pictures after the jump.
It Must Be Weird Having Me As a Dad
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 | Best Of, Home Life | Permalink | No Comments |
KATIE: I’m hungry
ME: You’re hungry?
KATIE: I’m hungry.
ME: Do you want to eat some rocks?
KATIE: No!
ME: How about furniture?
KATIE: (laughing) No!
ME: We could eat a computer.
KATIE: (laughing) No!
ME: You can have this speaker.
KATIE: (laughing) No!
ME: Do you want to eat a movie?
KATIE: (laughing) No!
ME: There’s only one other thing I can think of to eat and that’s food. You want some food?
KATIE: Uh huh.
Stuff Knoxville People Like: Waffle House
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | Best Of, East Tennessee | Permalink | 5 Comments |
In Knoxville we laugh at cities whose Waffle Houses are more than 30 feet apart.
PS - In comments at SayUncle’s: “So to Knoxville, Waffle House is like Starbucks is to Manhattan?” Pretty much.
Night Herons, Small-mouth Bass at Greenbelt Park
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 | Best Of, East Tennessee | Permalink | 3 Comments |
This kid and his dad were fishing below the dam at Greenbelt Park (Maryville, TN) where I was photographing herons. I was amazed he got a bass that size in Pistol Creek. These were the other two fishermen below the dam:
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