Vicki Hamilton

We have a 4 day convention in Nashville this week, so I’m driving up there tonight. The convention was going to be at the Opryland hotel, but it got flooded in May when Nashville had that terrible time with the Cumberland River flooding the downtown and hundreds of homes and businesses along the river. So we are having the convention at the Renaissance Hotel instead.

The best part is that I will get to see one of my college friends while I’m there. Alexa works in the Nashville suburbs and is going to drive downtown to meet me for lunch on Friday. I wish we had more time together, but this convention is a pretty full schedule.

I’m headed for Nashville this afternoon for the Tin Pan South festival. This is the week that Nashville honors the songwriters. There are shows all over town at all the different kinds of show venues for gatherings of all the great and the new songwriters.

I have an all access pass, so I can go to any show that I want. This is going to be so much fun! Plus I get to see one of my Facebook friends, Wendy, while I’m in town. This is going to be a great week!

The best part of April is the Spring flowers. We have all kinds of flowers blooming in gardens, along driveways and on the hillsides as you drive down the back roads. One of my favorite flowers is the tulip.

As a child I was fascinated with stories about Holland and the fields of tulips with windmills. I would love to see that some day. If I ever get the chance to travel outside of the United States, I would love to go to the Netherlands.

This is Good Friday and a lot of people are out from school or off from work because of the Easter weekend. But the weather forecast has been really scarey today. There is the threat of tornadoes all through the South. I hope everyone I know is safe and sound today and that the weather has mercy on us. I just heard on the radio that there were several tornadoes touching down in the Nashville area and that one touched down west of Huntsville. So they are all around us today. Take care.

I’ve live in the South all my life, but I’ve never seen Rock City. I drive past it every once in a while when I get up around Chattannoga, but I’ve never made a trip to just see Rock City. I think we’ll have to do something about that soon.