Lots to fill you in on. First off, to fulfill one of the purposes of the blog, to let family, friends and enemies know where we are and where we’ll be. We’re in….. ready…. drum roll…. Nashville. Yeah, still here but that’s not a bad thing because there’s still lots to see and do. The company decided to keep me here for another month to help the permanent crew catch things up. We’re not complaining and oh, this will give me more time to get my recording contract all sewn up….
So what have we been up to? Well, as the group Loverboy said back in ‘81, we’re “working for the weekend.” After working through the week we make it a point to explore the area each Saturday or Sunday. Last weekend we went to the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in South Nashville, the 55 acre estate of the Maxwell House Coffee fortune. It’s a sight in itself in the daytime with the immaculate gardens but starting back in May and running through November they commissioned an artist by the name of Bruce Munro to do his magic with light. Using hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable and over 20,000 lighted spheres he’s transformed the gardens into (using his words) an “iridescent landscape”. My pictures here by no means capture it but at least give you an idea. Their web site does a better job here. We took it in with a few hundred other like minded art aficionados on an absolutely perfectly crisp and cool evening.
The white bulbs in the background are actually lights, turned off in the daytime.
The whole landscape changes color. Quite a sight.
The loggia "light shower". Note the size of the doors compared to Margo.
This weekend we took a ride to Franklin. A sleepy little town south of Nashville that seems to be well liked by a few celebs who have made it home including Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman as well as NASCAR’s Darryl Waltrip to name a few. They were all busy so we instead just checked out the downtown area. Margo was in heaven with all the quaint shops and of course we found a cool local coffee shop, The Frothy Monkey. I people watched and took pictures, my idea of heaven. This was mainly a trip to get the lay of the land as we’ll be going back to check out the memorials and old southern mansions associated with the Battle of Franklin, a major civil war battle that occurred here in November 1864, also called the “five bloodiest hours” of the war. We’ll report on that in a future post.
Until then we know you’ll be working for your weekend and hope you are enjoy them as much as we do ours.
The Frothy Monkey. Great coffee. |
| I HAD to take a shot of this little shop. Nice choice of names. It also turned out to be Margo's favorite. |
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Downtown Franklin
LOOKS LIKE A GOOD DAY!
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