The Memphis Botanical Gardens has a brand new area called "My Big Backyard" and it is a kids' paradise. There are playhouses and slides and mad-made streams to run and play in... swinging bridges and sculpture gardens... chairs and sofas made of vine and moss... huge birds' nests to sit and play in... funky birdhouses... giant metal sunflowers... and a place called "the storm stop". In the storm stop misty clouds build up for three minutes, then heavy rains fall for three minutes, then its calm for three minutes, and the cycle starts all over. The company I work for is a sponsor of "My Big Backyard", so I dropped by on opening day to take pictures, and I had a ball. The ribbon-cutting is Saturday, and my family and I are planning to be there, cameras in hand.For more pictures in "My Big Backyard" visit my photostream.
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Song 592: Singing in the Rain
Artist: Cliff Edwards
First Notable Performance: The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Year: 1929
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I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin',
Singin' in the rain
Dancin' in the rain
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
I'm happy again!
I'm singin' and dancin' in the rain!
I'm dancin' and singin' in the rain...
Why am I smiling
And why do I sing?
Why does September
Seem sunny as spring?
Why do I get up
Each morning and start?
Happy and head up
With joy in my heart
Why is each new task
A trifle to do?
Because I am living
A life full of you.
2 comments:
What fun! My mother in law just visited us from Memphis, where my husband and I grew up, and it made me long to go back and photograph everything I loved back when I lived there: Beale St, the riverboats, the Orpheum (and ghost!), the Peabody, etc etc etc. Even Graceland.
I guess it's been 10 or 12 years since I was there... Miss it!
Lisa... you and your family should come to Memphis. You could spend an entire day just at the Botanic Garden and another at the Pink Palace Museum and another on Beale Street [and the Gibson Guitar Museum and Factory] and there's a fantastic mall near Collierville called Carriage Crossing. Memphis is much better than it was 10-12 years ago.
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