Traveling from Chattanooga ...

... towards Nashville you have - among others - these views:

Tennessee River

Sunset over Kimball traveling on I-24 W.

An Eventful Easter

We went to Chattanooga to spend the Easter weekend with Chase's family and we had a very nice visit.

On day two we went to Chattanooga Arboretum to go by car through the Reflection Riding and there were absolutely gorgeous sights with all the spring flowers and trees in full bloom! We had intended to go up to one of our other fave places on Raccoon mountain also, but car trouble stopped us. We ended up having our picnic at the parking lot of a gas station while waiting for the tow truck! It was fun though and the car got fixed on Monday so we could return safely back to Nashville. No charge since it was a recall issue. What a Blessing!

Working on my Chattanooga Bucket List

Nashville is calling and Chase and I will be living there from the first week of September, so we are working on experiencing things in Chattanooga before we leave. Last year we went to Lake Winnepesaukah http://www.lakewinnie.com/ and had a real great time, so we have that done already.
Two weeks ago, Aretha Frankenstein's http://www.arethas.com/ (GREAT pancake place!) was the destination and it was certainly living up to our expactations.
Our latest adventure was to go to Rock City. What an amazing and magical journey! A visual surprise was waiting around every corner. The beautiful views were breath taking. Time and money well spent.
http://seerockcity.com/

Lookout Mountain

The cliff The Lover's Leap ...

Suggestion: wear comfy shoes and watch your step

Happy explorer

Simply wow

View from the cafe over Seven States Flag Court

One tired hiker (no, just posing for the "dramatics")

... and the rest is downhill.

Favorite places to eat at in Chattanooga Part I

Souper Salad off of Gunbarrel Road. They are located at the same plaza as Best Buy and Hobby Lobby  .... http://www.soupersalad.com/. They have a great salad bar with everything imaginable. Not to mention their pasta salads ... especially their Fettuccine Pasta Salad ...  heaven for a pasta connoisseur like yours truly :-)  Soup, baked potatoes, tacos and pizza available as well. And all kinds of desserts. I'd do best to stay away from the latter though ... What I wonder now is why in the world I would write about eating and food when it was over five hours since I last ate ... sigh ... better bite the bullet and ... go to bed and forget about it. Dream about food? Who? Me? :-)

Spring in the air/Vår i luften

  

Spring is in the air

 Here in Chattonooga they are saying that it has been the coldest spring since they don’t know when … main thing is that that it IS spring, and that everything is starting to burst with life: flowers are starting to bloom, the leaves on the trees are about to bud and birds are singing and nesting. Chase and I saw a bird that dropped a long straw of dry grass today, but Chase put it where the bird could pull it to the nest-to-be. A little later on the straw was gone, so I guess the bird made use of it after all.


The pear trees are blooming now and they are very pretty:

　

　

In Swedish/på Svenska:

Det är vår i luften

Här i Chattanooga säger de att det har varit den kallaste våren i mannaminne … huvudsaken är dock att det ÄR vår, och att allting börjar sjuda av liv: blommorna börjar att blomma, löven på träden spricker ut och fåglarna sjunger och bygger bon. Chase och jag såg en fågel som tappade ett långt grässtrå idag, men Chase lade upp det där fågeln kunde dra det till det blivande nästet. Något senare så var strået borta, så jag förmodar att det kom fågeln till nytta i alla fall.

 

Prydnadspäronträden blommar nu och de är väldigt vackra (se bild ovan).