Ponderings ...

Most of the times I am the one that says to someone to not think too much ... today I guess I have to tell that to myself. Done nothing but thinking. I'm not letting the thoughts control me though ... they come and then they go ... here are some questions I've been asking today:

Is one weak if one show oneself vulnerable?

Is there any use to tell a truth if you're under the impression that no one would believe you?

After a while, a feeling came as a response: the answer to every question is love.

A Little Hobby of Mine ...

I have just a few hobbies ... one is baking (and eating) cookies, another one is taking pictures of jukeboxes. Why? Well ... maybe because I would like to have one, but don't have room for one at home .... there's just something about a jukebox.

At The CMA Luncheon

Yesterday I had the honor of attending the CMA luncheon at the Country Music Hall of Fame with my husband and we were present at a historic moment. The Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees were presented and interviewed by Ms. Brenda Lee. 

At the table we sat at, family members of one inductee, the late A-team Nashville session player Grady Martin, were sitting. Look his name up on the web, you will be pleasantly surprised at the mark he has made in Country Music history. Brenda Lee interviewed his son.

The other inductees of the Class of 2015 are The Oak Ridge Boys and Jim Ed Brown & The Browns. All high class musicians and entertainers without question. P-E-R-I-O-D.

Brenda Lee on the stage (in the middle) interviewing Jim Ed Brown and The Browns (to the left) and The Oak Ridge Boys (to the right).

IKEA Treats

Tunnbrod- Thin white wheat bread, Dammsugare - "Rum" flavored chocolate and marzipan treats. Paskmust -  dark toffe caramel soda.

A Kriz Rogers Quote

"About genres: they are the trunk of a tree. About sub-genres: they are the limbs of the tree. Then there are the leaves that live their own life waving with the wind with provisions from the tree. I am a leaf." -Kriz Rogers.

Remnants of Pandora

Unusual snow storms have passed over Nashville lately. One of them - Pandora - left a snow and ice print on the ground that kept me from going anywhere for five days. Below a picture of a chunk of ice I broke off that was laying on top of the wimdshield ... yes, it was that thick ... (a regular sized microwave right behind it as a reference).

Capital Memories

It was very special. The trip to Washington D.C. To go there, we went by car from Nashville by Knoxville and then northwest through Virginia and the Shenendoah Valley. I really enjoyed the picturesque scenery of the agricultural settings in Virginia, it was a very pretty landscape. The highlight of the trip was definitely the visit to Arlington National Cemetery. I was thinking as I was walking there that I really have the outmost respect not only for the fallen and the servicemen and women interred there and their service and the families sacrifices, but also for the ones who work there. My thought is that they serve those who served. What a legacy.

Virginia landscape.

A quote by JFK at the President John F. Kennedy Gravesite.

Looking over the Arlington  Memorial Bridge towards the Lincoln Memorial.