Around Nashville in the Spring

On March 19th, as I was leaving Nashville to drive to Pennsylvania, I stopped to look around a plantation named Travellers' Rest. Most of the land is now the train yards at Nashville. The first house here was built in 1799 and the owner with 2 other men went on to found Memphis.









This is a gate at the side of the house. The front is to the left and it goes on and on behind that. The grounds have a lot of magnolia trees.

This is the interior of a separate red brick house in the back.

When I returned from Pennsylvania I took a Gray Line tour of the city on this trolley on April 2nd.

The most scenic part was in Centennial Park. They had a lot of red bud trees. (FYI: Oklahoma's state tree)

The spring flowers were blooming.

Dogwood trees were mixed in with the red buds.

And there were also some maples with pretty pink samaras,or "maple keys."

The guide said that for Tennessee's Centennial they had built several Greek buildings but the Parthenon is the only one they didn't remove after the centennial.

The capital of country music also has a Hard Rock Cafe. Guitars are everywhere in Tennessee and especially in Nashville. There are also a lot of recording studios here but although we saw them on the tour they really aren't very interesting photographically. The guide told us that 95% of the songwriters in the world live in Nashville. And they don't know what is wrong with the other 5%! The bridge in the back ground crosses the Cumberland River which goes right by downtown.

This guy is painted on the wall at the Hard Rock Cafe. Don't know why...

No explanation needed.




This is the Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School where Dinah Shore graduated. The guide said Oprah Winfrey graduated from here also. She started her career working on a TV station there in Nashville. And her father still has his barber shop in East Nashville. I will have to check that out the next trip!

I took this picture on my first trip through Nashville on March 18th. This is at a state park near Percy Priest Lake. There was not very much water in the lake. I think that means that the fish would be easier to catch since they didn't have as much room to get away! But I didn't stay long enough to see if these 2 guys caught any.