Three drone videos from some Christmas Day flying over Music City, 2021. Enjoy.
Category: Tennessee
It was a Cold and Boring Night
“To me, as a gay boy, hugging another boy was perfectly natural. It always has been, it always will be. I always felt instinctively somehow that people would disapprove and say I was naughty. And I always felt instinctively that I knew what I wanted and I was going to have it and all those disapproving people could just go suck eggs and pound sand. Even at the height of the worst spiritual and sexual repression that Oklahoma and its churches could dole out, my inner belief has always been the same. There’s nothing wrong with me. I’ve known who I am and what I wanted since I was at least five. And everyone else who is not onboard with that can go over Niagra Falls without a barrel.”
Donelson Renovates
Not much can be done about the traffic volume as long as Metro and the State are devoid of ideas or even the hint of wanting to think about possible solutions. Nashville is drowning in traffic, but no one has the will or money to do anything about it.
Warm Summer Night
Is there anything better than a warm summer night playing in – er, rather sitting near the lawn sprinkler under a street light while watching the 21:00 evening arrivals at KBNA? Well, maybe if I was still 10 …
That Curtain-y Feeling
That feeling you get when you hang your first curtains in the first house you ever owned? Priceless. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, April 30, 2018
Welcome to the Neighborhood
The moment when you close on your house and your new neighbor welcomes you with a giant batch of chocolate chip… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, April 23, 2018
Shooting Up the Waffle House, Naked
In all this pouring (and pouring and pouring) rain, how difficult is it to find a naked man running around after he assaulted a Nashville Waffle House at 3 a.m. with an AR-15 and killed four people? And this after he was arrested last July by the Secret Service for being in a restricted area…
Closing Tomorrow
Closing on the new house at 11 a.m. tomorrow! VERY happy. His Majesty is preparing final addresses for the Cats of Saddlebrooke/Hermitage, then he and the Royal Court will be off at the end of the week to invade and conquer the new land of Jonesboro/Nashville. Wish him luck; there is a very giant, very…
Moving to Donelson
On the road again … Moving packing has begun! Heading back to Donelson (yay!) to a smaller house (yay!) with no… Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, April 12, 2018
Deer Tracks
With the recent freeze/heat weather cycle, the Saddlebrooke Deer Herd are a little pressed for food, it appears. The… Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Snow at Hermitage Station
Hard to tell in this pic, but it’s snowing to beat the band in Music City. Thoughts and prayers to grocery store workers… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, January 29, 2018
Snow in Dixie
Snowing to beat the band in Music City and they’re as panicked as if General George Thomas and his Yankees was a-comin’ agin. Winter is always amusing in Dixie. Snow is purty though! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, January 12, 2018
Dressing Up
Newschannel Five must have seen my previous post about dressing Steve Layman like an Easter egg the other night…. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, November 17, 2017
Dressing Down
As an old print journalist, I have little regard for tee-wee “news” – it ain’t news, it ain’t journalism; it’s local… Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Vandy's Gorgeous Afternoon
Gorgeous autumn afternoon on the campus of Vanderbilt University. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, October 28, 2016
New Swirly Lights
Bought new LED swirly lights for the front of the house. They have a remote that can change the colors to… Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, October 23, 2016
Another Hermitage Sunset
Hermitage I-40 sunset. Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Back to Churl Status
Home again! Glad to be here. It was a wonderful weekend. His Majesty #IAmTheRoux immediately assigned me back to General… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
Home Again
Great to be back home in the Volunteer State. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
Almost Home
I knew I was close to home when I encountered a truck carrying Brad Paisley's "Life Amplified" Tour headed for Music City. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
Tennessee River Bridge
Bridge over the Tennessee River, at Paducah/Grand Rivers/Land Between the Lakes. Not far from where the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers meet the Ohio. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
Four Rivers HD
Not a great pic, but in Paducah, KY, there's a Harley Davidson dealership shaped like a riverboat. Who knew? fourrivershd.com Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
Reminder of Home
Mound City, MO. First person I see, the hotel desk clerk, used to live in … Nashville, TN. Maybe I'm homesick. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016
Nashville, IL
Nashville, Illinois. Nashville to Nashville is 264 miles and three hours, twenty-three minutes. It's hot stramy in both Nashvilles. On to St. Louis, 60 miles away! Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Crescent Moon Chasing Sun
Crescent moon (upper left) chasing sun to the horizon over a hot Hermitage. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, July 10, 2016
Ole Yeller
His Imperial Highness, #IAmTheRoux, and His Imperial Clown Prince, #GooseIsLoose, wish it known that They do not exert… Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, June 30, 2016
Sunset Over Hermitage
Sunset over Hermitage. Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The Cumberland Rolls
The Cumberland flows on between Gallatin and Lebanon on a scorching hot afternoon. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, June 13, 2016
Cookeville?
Is it Cookeville? … YES! … but why?! Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Baxter?
Is it Baxter? Noooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Smithville?
Is it Smithville? McMinnville throughthat very dirty windshield? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Carthage?
Is it Carthage? Nooooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Lebanon?
Is it Lebanon? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Gallatin?
Is it Gallatin? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Surprise Road Trip
Us? On a road trip? On a Saturday morning?! Now what's up with this? <Shhhhhh! It's a surprise! His Majesty The Roux monitors my Instagram stream while we're gone.> Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Rainy Hermitage
It's a gloomy, rainy Saturday afternoon in Hermitage; but more trees are blooming, so the long, dark winter is almost done. Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 12, 2016
The Things Ya See …
Our neighbors must include an IT nerd and some Different Strokes fans. Heh.(Betcha can't guess which WiFi networks are ours! (Oh the things insomnia makes you find funny at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning.)) Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, February 20, 2016
Hello Nashville!
Hello Nashville! It's so very good to see you again! After a DQ bacon cheeseburger, it was lights out in my own bed by 7:30. Amazing what being free from a monster adrenal can do for you! Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 8, 2016
Civil War Hospitals, the Vagaries of History and Us
A «sad story on the evening news» which prompted the following stream-of-consciousness (and shows how exciting my Sunday nights are): A fire destroyed a home north of Murfreesboro which was used as a hospital for Civil War troops. The family who lived there was refurbishing it and lost everything. But the story caught my attention…
It is Difficult …
“How long? Not long. Because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1965 … to keep up a blog like this one, which has, at various times in the past, been chock-a-block with details and observations from our lives. Living two years back in…
Tennessee Spring
I’m a little nervous about stormy weather here in Middle Tennessee, because this is, of course, tornado country. But nonetheless, the past 24 hours of weather have been kind of beautiful, spring rain without depressingly torrential downpours, followed by periods of clouds interspersed with clear sky. Tonight was particularly wonderful, with a little rain followed…