A pair of wooden posts help hold up the fence of the horse pasture in this continuation of the Around Home in Spring 2025 series.
When we built all the fences around our property, we learned a lot about how to do it, which included some wooden posts every now and then to help keep tension on the fence wire. Plus, the wooden posts are a bit more photogenic than the thinner metal posts.
Looking into the woods from the edge of the trees in the woodlands of Tennessee. This is the latest in a series of photos from Around Home in Spring 2025. I decided to make a tag for them to make them all easier to find. And I may have one or two others to share, too.
A purple hydrangea blossom stands out against the green leaves in the background. This photo is a direct follow-up to the Rose in Spring posted recently, from the Around Home in Spring 2025 series.
We have had this hydrangea plant in our yard for a few years, but this is the best year yet that it has had. The purple color is magnificent, and I am looking forward to seeing the plant grow and bloom more.
A rose in the spring after a rain in our front yard. The color of these roses always stands out to me, so I wanted to make sure it stands out in this photo.
I had mentioned in the About the Photo section of the previous post that I recently took some new photos around our house, and this is one of those. These roses are always good photo subjects, and I decided to give this one a different look. You can read more about that in the About the Photo section of this post below.
Camera settings: ISO-200, f/2, 1/350 second, 35mm We found our way to lush jungle foliage and tropical waterfalls. In Nashville, Tennessee, of all places.
We spent the Easter Weekend in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Resort for the annual Lads to Leaders convention with several people from our church and around 10,000 other people. It was a great time, even if it did make us tired. We had been several times before when Jaylin was a participant, but we stopped when a certain pandemic came around and then Jaylin graduated from high school. So this was our first time to go to the convention in five years.
Spring Creek flows past Sellers Farm State Archaeological Area in Lebanon, Tennessee.
As you may recall from the earlier Sellers Farm post, I had gone there to see the native mound, but the path along Spring Creek turned out to be the bigger attraction to me. And it was a very photogenic creek, too.
Recently, we took a day trip to Middle Tennessee. Laura was going to a baby shower, and I went along for the trip, too. While she was showering, I went to a nearby park, Sellers Farm State Archaeological Area, in Lebanon. It had a nice trail and some interesting features, so here are some photos.
The main feature of the area is a mound from the Mississippian period, thought to be built around 1300 AD, or maybe a little earlier. It was not quite as large as some of the other mounds we have seen, such as Sauls’ Mound at Pinson Mounds in Tennessee. But it is still always interesting to me to see these remnants from ancient societies.
Water flows over Twin Falls at Rock Island State Park in Tennessee, as seen during our 2024 Tennessee Waterfalls trip.
When we were looking at Tennessee State Parks to visit to see waterfalls, I had seen photos of Twin Falls. But when we were at Rock Island State Park, I could not figure out where these falls were at first. So I had to get out my phone and do a little more looking.
Our Christmas tree for 2024 in our den. This photo was from December 23, when all of the gifts were wrapped and placed under the tree, because we would start opening them the next day.
Yes, Christmas was a couple of weeks ago now, but I am still catching up on the Christmas posts. It was a busy holiday season, not that I am complaining about it. And besides, this photo is being posted on the 12th Day of Christmas. So instead of 12 drummers drumming, you get one Christmas tree photo. I am not sure where you would put those 12 drummers, anyway.
Happy Halloween! Trunk or Treat has been a tradition for us at our church event for several years. You can see some of Laura’s past creations here and here.
For this year, Laura decided to go with our recent experiences, so that our trunk was a trip to the Panama Canal!
Because this event was at our church, and because our trip to Panama was a church trip, we thought that most people would get the connection. We did have lots and lots of visitors from the neighborhood around our church building who probably did not get the connection, but most everyone knows what the Panama Canal is, so we figured it would be just fine.
