The Good Friday Tornado that ripped through my home of Murfreesboro seen fro the air. The Tornado, an EF4, cut a path over 22 miles long, half a mile wide, and over 30 minutes on the ground, through the city and countryside. It missed my house by one block. Most everything around our home is destroyed.

The hyacinths are poking above the ground on the crescent.

Stones River National Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

Downtown Storefront

Photo by Rob Janson. More info on this beautiful property located on Indian Hills Golf Course in Murfreesboro, Tennessee property available at www.JohnCJones.com

Playing with (or more like taunting) Butters.

more cucumbers hiding under the leaves. Grandma would pick these before they matured and pickle them.

that first cucumber I showed you early tasted good.

331 east Main ST. Murfreesboro, TN

The windows - different shapes and sizes- draw attention to this 1896 house built for Murfreesboro jeweler William R. Bell. The elegant oval staIned glass window beneath the neoclassical porch is overshadowed by the projecting palladan window on the first floor, above which are paired arched windows with keystones.

On the roof, an elaborate round window, finials, cresting, and towering chineys add to the picturesque quality of the house.

The cucumbers are growing in our garden.

Murfreesboro, TN. Not an exciting building, but it is locally owned, one need not apply for financing at the concession stand, and the movie starts after 2 or 3 trailers (no other ads).

Little Dippers explored our new theme for the month by playing in the "snow" today!

Shaving cream is great for sensory exploration and provides endless opportunities for children to play and discover!

Sebastian turned 6 Saturday.

Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro TN.

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On Fridays, our Twinkles ladies where pink! Girl Power

denzel jumper

What kind of snake is this? We found it in the front yard.

Our Kiddos really enjoyed milk and chocolate chip cookies in celebration of National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day ☺️

Well, I had surgery on my back yesterday and was fast asleep by 10pm CST last night. My wife was hard to get to sleep for whatever reason and didn't make it into bed until around 4am this morning. Around 5am, we got slammed by a line of severe thunderstorms that moved through the area slowly. They seemed to have taken forever to move through! Then, this afternoon, another round of thunderstorms bore down on us like a train that just won't stop. Oh well, such is the life in the southern US in the Summer eh? I managed to drag my sorry butt out of bed long enough to capture this view off our front porch of the approaching thunderstorm.

this moth is sitting on the trunk of the Sentra. The green reflection is the John Deere riding mower.

Home-grown Carpetbaggers

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Mr. Clarke. Battle of the Bulge veteran; Civil Rights marcher, War Poet; etc.

The Stones River is barely a stream right now. The soil in the forefront of the picture is where the river normally is.