Beautiful Tennessee

Hi everyone.  I just can't believe how fast the summer has gone and how long it's been since I have added an entry.  I hope you all are well and promise to do better.

We had a wonderful summer in MA. with friends and family and it was time to get back to reality.  No more steamers, haddock, popcorn from Hobb's, visits to Lynch Park and floating around in my friend's giant pool chair, morning and evening visits from the kids and sharing meals with my friend Carol and her great family.  It's hard to drive away from. Bob did a lot of golfing with a bunch of other retired friends.  Just a nice summer.

 

We are currently in Tennessee and doing some sight seeing.  Tennessee is known as the Volunteer State, and it is colored green and orange.  Green as in the mountains and many trees and orange as most Tennesseans ( if that is a word) are wearing something orange with a big T on it.  The folks here are very dedicated fans of football.  I am telling you, almost every store you go into is selling orange shirts, shorts,

Crox type shoes, hats, flags candy and anything else including slippers that you can think off.  I don't know what I would do if I lived here, I just don't look good in orange and neither do some of them that are wearing it.  Oh well.

 

While here we visited the Sunsphere,  This was built forthe 1982 World's Fair.  It is a 266 foot tall steel tower topped with a 74 foot bronze glass plated sphere.  It's a sight  that can be see as you enter the city of Knoxville.   The tower's window glass panels are layered in 24-karat gold dust and cut to seven different shapes. It weighs 600 tons and features six double steel truss columns in supporting the seven story sphere. The tower has a volume of 203,689 cubic feet and a surface of 16,742 square feet.  Migrating starlings enjoyed the beauty of the glass sphere so much that the city had to purchase a device that emits varies noises to scare the birds from the tower.  I suppose window washers were had to find!  LOL

 

Almost forgot, we also went to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. 

The mission of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame is to “honor the past, celebrate the present, and
promote the future” of women’s basketball.

The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame opened in June 1999 in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is the only facility of its kind dedicated to all levels of women’s basketball. So whether you are looking for inspiration, education or just plain fun, the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame is the place to find it.

The outside of the building, is encompassed by two amazing basketballs. In fact, the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame is home to the world’s largest basketball. It’s 30-feet tall, weighs 10 tons and sits on top of a glass staircase that resembles a basketball net. At the other end of the facility is a brick courtyard, shaped like a basketball. Many of the bricks are engraved to honor guests, inductees, and a host of others who have chosen to leave their legacy at the Hall of Fame.

Catch you all later.  Enjoy the weekend whereever you may be.