The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
-Psalm 19:1

Do you know that God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
-Job 37:15



Thursday, March 18, 2010

Chattanooga and more

SKY WATCH FRIDAY time! Welcome all sky fans!!! I truly appreciate your visit and comments.

Our hosts: Klaus Sandy Sylvia Wren Louise Fishing Guy

Thanks, also,to Dot and Tom, who were instrumental in the success of this blogging event. You should definitely come fly with us!We spent Saturday enjoying our local community festival, where my adorable "grand-puppies" entered in the doggie beauty contest. Seriously... We supported them, and Foxy (the pomeranian) came in 4th place in the smile contest. Then, we watched as Mini-Dew jumped around like crazy (that's the shot above, where she is mastering her triple)... and then sat and relaxed enjoy my favorite local music group, Skannyardle.My wonderful groom and I with the festival behind us

Sunday, we went away for a few days on a business trip in Chattanooga. It was absolutely terrible weather for a trip to such a beautifully mountainous area. We had an amazing view of Lookout Mountain from the conference center and some of the elevators, but no thanks to the icky grey-ness and low cloud cover, we couldn't even enjoy and appreciate it. Unfortunately, also, I was in session during normal business hours, so we were extremely limited in our exploration of the local area. We did have the opportunity to briefly explore the aquarium, which was beautiful and delightful, and we visited several of the restaurants in the area. Our favorite was the "Big River Grill". When you go there, ask to be seated in Chris's section. He's the BEST! His customers are well served. We really enjoyed the free electric shuttle, which provided us free travel all over town, and it's designed to be "green". You can see the grey skies in my pictures... hold cursor over picture for the description.
My wonderful groom and I posing in front of the AquariumThe Tennessee Aquarium Imax theater and the cool pedestrian bridge
The penguins doing the... Happy Dew Dance???  LOL!!Jellyfish at the Tennessee Aquarium
Pardon me, boys.  Is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo...?  indeedSee the crepuscular rays (manufactured) pouring into the tank???
Beautiful daffodil field at the Choo ChooThis statue reminded me of me as a child... can't understand why???
Have a magnificent day!
~Dewdrop

17 comments:

  1. Wow congrats Foxy.
    Fun and great post Dew.
    Love the daffodil and the aquarium.

    Have a wonderful weekend.
    xo

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  2. Lovely pics.

    Oh how adorable are your puppies. We've been doing the rounds of animal shelters hoping to find the one dog and one cat to take home.

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  3. Wonderful sequence of shots and I love the sculpture at the end.

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  4. Great series of photos! The pups are sooooo cute! Hope you have a great weekend!

    Sylvia

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  5. Glad you had a good trip the weekend looked fun thanks for sharing .

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  6. LOoks like a lovely and fun filled day out... Adventure and skywatch together... :-)

    Pixellicious Photos

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  7. good post..sounds like you had a very enjoyable weekend despite the gray skies.

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  8. What a fun day was had! Good food and darling dogs,what more could you ask for!?!
    Thanks for sharing!

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  9. Looks like you had a fun week. I've been on a daff hunt today and there are none to be shot here yet. Hope ours turn out as good as yours xo

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  10. I love Chattanooga... it is really a lovely city and the mountains are great.

    You did a nice job on the stop action on the first shot. Makes me dizzy just looking at it.

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  11. Dew: Cool capture of the person into the sky, love the photos of you and your honey.

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  12. Great SWF post. Cute doggies...and a really nice looking couple!! Great smiles. You could have won the smiling contest!

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  13. I'm sorry I got far to distarcted by the puppies I forgot all about skies. They are just so darned cute.

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  14. Thanks for visiting my blog and I'm sorry you couldn't see the picture. I frequently have to refresh my browser several times to see picture when I visit blogs. Not sure why that happens. It's definitely irritating and I'm sorry that happened when you visited my blog.

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  15. oooh looks like that festival was a lot of fun!

    leethroughthelens.blogspot.com

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  16. What a pleasant surprise!! I have been reading your blog for years, and never left a comment, but when you see your own hometown featured in one of your favorite weather blogs, you just have to say something!

    I hate the weather was terrible for you guys in Chattanooga! It is a beautiful city! I hope you can make it back sometime!

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