Ah, spring. It’s my favorite season and it always makes me think of how grateful I am to live in Tennessee. People not from Tennessee won’t get this, and people from Tennessee will laugh, because spring is both the best and worst season to live here.
Tennessee really puts on her best clothes for you in the spring. It’s not that she’s not beautiful in the fall, summer, or winter, but Tennessee really dresses up and puts on a show in the spring. We were driving past a corn field, turned purple with some kind of plant that nobody in my family can agree on. My kids got excited and said, "Look! The corn field got all dressed up for Easter!" Indeed, it seems they all have.
And yet, even though there is great beauty in Tennessee, we all have to pay for it with seasonal allergies, unless one happens to have nasal passages of steel. Still, I think it is a small price to pay for all that beauty. You can have your "purple mountain’s majesty"- I’ll take my purple cornfields and bright green hills.
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I have only seen Tennessee in the summer, so I can only imagine what it is like in the spring.
It is great to hear all of this gratefulness for the wonder's of creation.
Oh, what I wouldn't give for purple – or any colour – in the fields. The lovely white snow that we had is grey and black as it melts. There is a promise of life in the ground that is revealed but no new growth yet. Still, we'll have our turn eventually.
I'd love to visit TN, I've never heard a bad thing about it—but I'm guessing those with allergies might not be too excited!
Great post! Send some of that good spring season north! there are hills of snow in my yard still!! unheard of in April, here. =)
I've been to TN many times, and springtime is always my favorite time to go. There's just something about spring in the south.
Great post! 🙂
It sounds glorious!
It sounds glorious!
It sounds glorious!
I've never been there, but I would love to visit!
Spring has always been my favorite season.
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