Tennessee Summer Days
Jul 17th, 2008 by John
Julie and I and Julie’s mother, Lois, just returned from a short trip to the great State of Tennessee. We visited Julie’s sister, Diane, and her family in Nashville. Diane is the Administrative Assistant to Mike Glenn, the pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church. Diane’s husband, Larry Mayfield, is known for his many original contributions to Christian music. One evening we ate and laughed with the growing Mayfield clan–Jonathan and Grace, Jeff and Kristin and Austin and Zachary, and Shelley, the VW bug-driving diva.
Julie and I also visited my mother and step-father, Margaret and Neal Parrish, in Linden, TN. We kicked back and enjoyed good country food, some of which we got right out of the garden. We launched into many leisurely conversations, reminiscing about life together. Neal’s recipe for grilled short ribs is out of this world. I learned the secret…and I’m not telling. We drove part of the Natchez Trace, one of the most beautiful partk highways in the continental United States.
Tennessee overall is a beautiful state with a rich history and breath-taking terrain.
We’re back in Michigan. Whoopee.
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Glad you enjoyed my home-state of Tennessee! It gets awfully hot here in July…You should come back in October when the fall leaves are spectacular.
Sounds like a great State, my kind of a State – LAID BACK, JJ Cale, a rocking chair on a varanda overlooking some fields bursting with liffe. This is why I love the WWW it takes me to places I will never go.
Rachel Held Evans,
I spent years in Bemis, Jackson and Pocahontas, TN. I like your website. I was born just across the state line in Corinth, Mississippi (another great Civil War town). We would love to drive the Natchez Trace in the Fall when the colors are at their peak.
Thanks for visiting from “monkey town, TN”
Mark R,
I did sip coffee with my folks on their front porch on a cool Tennessee morning.
Ah, yes, the rocking chair on the porch…”veranda” is a little too high-falootin’ a word