April 2023 – Gardens to Gables

April 28, 2023

We got around half an inch of rain last night, so our rain totals for the month stand at 1.5 inches – a woeful start to the season, but better than nothing! It finally feels like spring, and despite being mostly sequestered inside in front the computer (I am finishing up a wonderful but demanding (read more)

Category: Livingston County

April 14, 2023

It’s National Gardening Day, and I am grumpy. The weather is acting like June (80 degrees yesterday!) and I only have one rain barrel half full of water – we last had rain on March 31 in my neck of the woods. My pansies turn tortured and accusing faces toward me, as if to ask (read more)

Categories: 1901 Farmhouse, Gardens, Kentucky Gardens

Tags: #kentuckygardens, #nationalgardeningday, Gardens

April 10, 2023

The Louisville and Nashville Turnpike, completed in the 1830s, was a boon for the communities it passed through – encouraging the development of towns and businesses related to the road, such as taverns and inns. The rebirth of that turnpike in the early 20th century as the Dixie Highway (US 31W) bolstered commercial growth (read more)

Category: Hardin County

Tags: #dixiehighway, #ElizabethtownKY, #historichotel, #kentuckyarchitecture, #TaylorHotel, #US31W

April, 2023

It Finally Feels Like Spring – at the End of April

Happy National Gardening Day 2023

The Taylor Hotel, Elizabethtown, Kentucky

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