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Tennessee Road Trip...

Adorable...

another shot of the salt kettle, this time I found a new friend.



and another willing poser...


the outside of the museum

and the views as we headed back to our Jeep and off down the road...

Kentucky's Appalachia Museum, con't...

Gift Shop entrance...

a little rustic wagon, I absolutely adored...

pieces of American history, native to the Appalachia region...


and look at that beautiful old seed counter!
The first thing outta my mouth was,
"Hello! May I take pictutes, please..."

Some of the displays scattered about the Gift shop...

beautiful glazed pottery...

The Museum of Appalachia...

As we left Pigeon Forge, early on Monday morning, the skies were cloudy and threatening to rain, but as the day progressed the skies cleared, and it was absolutely beautiful as we travelled north in Tennessee, heading back towards Kentucky. Once back on I-75N, we began seeing signs for the Museum of Appalachia so we decided to go check it out.

The entrance sign as we pulled onto the property,

featured beautiful county scenes that took us back in time...

Like this rustic log cabin...

Grist Mill...


a working farm...

and the Gift Shop.

Come on.... let's go look around!

Summer '09

Our summer has been amazingly wonderful to us! We were able to take a road trip, attend a summer concert, had some backyard barbeques, hung out with our family and friends, celebrated everyday to the fullest, enjoyed our garden and rear deck, paused for a moment to complain about the weather --- although, we realize it beats some of the alternatives, LOL! and said, "Thank you to God for blessing and enriching our lives."

We've reconnect with some old friends, make time in our lives for a few new ones, had an unexpected mishap that we continue to "just deal with" for the time being, and Wow! What else?! There's still items a few things we've yet to do yet... like swim in the Lake, making that "promised trip" back to Headlands State Park and Beach... hooking up the cable from the computer to the big screen so that we can have our own little "drive-in" party in the backyard, and sleep at least one night out on the deck, just to stargaze....

But today, I spent some time editing more of our photographs from June's Gaitinburg and Back road trip, that I'd love to share with all of my friends. May you find as much peace in the journey as we did!

be back soon...

Sorry for not updating sooner...

what can I say except, "it's summer!"

Don and I have been loving life and living it to the fullest,

the Fourth of July has come and gone,

and on July 9th we had a most amazing and beautiful time at

Country Concert '09

Ft. Laramie, Ohio

We enjoyed listening to and partying with Joey & Rory, Little Big Town, and Sugarland!