Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee
Hello BlogFriends!
I have done some sorting through my Nashville photos
and I am back to share with you a portion of the walking around photos.

Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Our main objective in Nashville was to see Bright Eyes. Other than that,
we just cruised around downtown and scoped out what she had to offer.
Nashville, Tennessee
I did make a new friend in Nashville.
Meet Mister Indian.
Nashville, Tennessee
My general observations of downtown...
*Nashville, Tennessee
There are banks and churches on every block.
Ohhh...Money & Religion!
(Kind of like Auburn, AL, where there is either a
gas station, bank, or church every where you turn. Literally.)
Nashville, Tennessee
This was not the cleanest city.
Definitely not the dirtiest, I am sure,
but not the cleanest or sweetest smelling.
I am not sure if we were there on garbage day or what,
but the streets were lined with stinky garbage cans
and we would catch a whiff of garbage juice or rotten bear quite often.
I blame this on the abundance of tourist attraction bars.
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
They had a few nice parks and outdoorsy places.
We went to the Bicentennial Mall and Centennial Park.
I wonder if they'll have a Tricentennial Park!? Ha.
These parks were two of my favorite spots from in Nashville.

Centennial Park had great landscape, pretty flowers everywhere.
This is where I found the tulips from the March post.
The main attraction was a Parthenon replication.
It was kinda crazy, but nothing like standing in front of the real thing.
Yes, I have been to Greece! Woot!
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Bicentennial Mall has a great outdoor amphitheatre,
a farmer's market, a giant globe floating in water, and much more.
Link for more info.
Basically we just cruised around.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
I did make myself proud.
I walked across the pedestrian bridge
and went up to the top of the lookout tower.
I am scared of bridges & heights.
I did not get close to the edge in either instance. Ha.

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All in all it was a good trip.
I came home with some
great souvenirs, photos, & memories.
Look out for a follow up blog on Nashville.
I have a little more to share.

More photos here.

Tuesday Treasures.

Hello BlogFriends!
Tuesday Again!
I am back with another dose of
Tennessee Treasures
from the Franklin Antique Mall.
Here she goes...
large stain glass pieces
approximately eight to ten foot tall stain glass windows
They were amazing!

pretty kitchen wares


Toadstool stool
great quilts.

sweet old glasses.

the treasure trove here.

Monday, March 28, 2011

March.Where did you go!?

Hey BlogFriends!
Just a little shout to say...
March is coming to an end.
*Gasp

So I think you need to
head over to the Freckled Nest &
check out March's AWESOME sponsors!
(I'm one of them!)




Tennessee Tulips.
From the Centennial Park in Nashville.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Bright Eyes!

Last Thursday, the bestie, my cousin and I made our way to Nashville, TN to see Bright Eyes at the Ryman. The tickets to the show were actually Christmas presents. I had given the bestie Joshua Radin tickets and she had given me Bright Eyes tickets. We are great like that. We came very close to both of us giving each other Joshua Radin tickets. We figured it out beforehand and ended up with an out of state adventure on our hands. If you even remotely like Bright Eyes, I recommend seeing them live. It just might make you love 'em! (Listen to their SXSW show here.) It was better and way different than what I had expected. I was expecting more mellow, This is the first day of my life, but it was not at all. The show was great & the colors were pretty.


See for yourself.....











.....& to everyone coming over from Freckled Nest,
thank you for stopping by!
Feel free to cruise around
& I would love to hear from you!
Good Luck in the giveway!

Be on the look out for another Nashville, TN post.
An adventuring around the city post.
TGIF Blogfriends!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Lunch Break Walks

Hello BlogFriends!

I have a boat load of lovely
from my recent
Lunch Break Walks.


There are tons of blooms.
You can almost smell them.
Enjoy!