Tag: Middle Tennessee
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Fall Festival at Lucky Ladd Farm {Tennessee}
Happy First Day of October! I’m always so glad when summer gives way to the cooler, colorful joys of fall. Fall is my favorite season and I love that here in Tennessee it is a much more gradual and longer season than the quick flash of a few weeks that is in Utah. With October…
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Leaving Pennies at the Stones River National Cemetery {Tennessee}
We spent a rainy morning walking through the Stones River National Battlefield and National Cemetery. This field is where one of the worst battles of the American Civil War was fought. The Union army was losing the war, they had been defeated over and over again. In the last days of December 1862, the two…
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Lost Creek Trail- Tims Ford State Park {Tennessee}
I made it home from Israel and have been getting back into the regular flow of things at home. And nothing helps fight jet lag better than some fresh air and sunshine, so we made our way to our favorite state park to explore another wonderful trail. We decided to take the Lost Creek Trail…
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Jack Daniels Distillery {Tennessee}
One of the most well known items to come from Tennessee is whiskey. There are a lot of whiskey companies that are here in Tennessee. But the one that really staked the claim on whiskey is none other than the world famous Jack Daniels. And whether you partake or not of this drink, visiting the…
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Antiquing in Bell Buckle {Tennessee}
Originally the plan was for us to drive to Missouri to have a day at Silver Dollar City with my in-laws, but instead they decided to come here so they could help us work on our garden. Having them here meant Brad and I could go on a date and there is no better place…
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David Crockett State Park {Tennessee}
This weekend’s state park adventure is brought to you by Davy Crockett- legendary folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, politician, defender of The Alamo, and purveyor of animal skin clothing- who was considered the ‘King of the Wild Frontier’. He gained a reputation for his larger than life adventures and as those stories were then put into…
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Travis Hollow Bridge Trail- Tims Ford State Park {Tennessee}
There is nothing better than an evening walk in the spring of Tennessee, especially if it is at one of the state’s beautiful state parks. For this evening’s walk, we made our way south to Tims Ford State Park. We love this park because of all the trails that weave around the many hands and…
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Edgar Evins State Park {Tennessee}
With the beautiful warm weather this weekend, we spent most of the time outside in our yard planting some trees and getting the ground ready for flowers. But after our yardwork, we needed a walk and decided on a visit to a new state park and made our way to Edgar Evins State Park. This…
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Hidden Springs Trail- Cedars of Lebanon State Park {Tennessee}
This last Friday, the president of the university that I work at declared a campus wide mental health day for all students and employees. So with an unexpected, and greatly appreciated, day off work I decided to begin the random vacation with a visit to Cedars of Lebanon State Park. It is not very often…
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Lucky Ladd Farms {Tennessee}
This weekend we made our way to Lucky Ladd Farms for some fall festivities. This is one of our favorite seasonal activities and we were so excited to be in farming area where we could really enjoy it. We started off our time with a trip through the corn maze, winding our way here and…