Blue skies calling my name…
Published 9:12 pm Tuesday, March 23, 2021
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Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
One year old Sawyer English, with the help of his mom Morgan, says I got some sliding skills too!
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
Elizabethton Airport flight line worker Cory Richardson tops off the tanks of a Piper Arrow after it had land for it’s final time and prior to it being towed to its hanger on the other side of the field.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
Spring is in the air which means it’s time to head out to the diamonds for baseball and softball games. The entire Bennett family (from left) Evan, Ryan Justus, Kyrie, mom Joy Katie, Tucker and Ellie Kate stop to pay Marty Buchanan before heading over to the baseball game Monday afternoon.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
There are many different jobs on the flight line at any airport. Here Logan Odom attaches a tow bar to the front wheel of a Piper Arrow before he tows it across the field to it’s storage hanger.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
There’s nothing better for (L-R)Mary Asher, Joyce Salyer and Jemima Rowland than sitting in the bleachers and rooting for their favorite Lady Ranger and enjoying a pizza and a few soda at the game.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
Richard “Jarfly” Dugger, one of the very best softball pitching coaches in the country, was at Monday’s Lady Rangers game Monday watching he latest protegees pitch.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
The concession stand at Unaka offers some very good eats when you’re at a Lady Ranger game including some great pickles. Just ask either Michelle Sluder, Rhonda Price, or Stacey Ingrams for one next time you’re at the game.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
Four-year-old Kinsley English shows off her sliding or is it flying skills on the big slide at Harmon Park.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders
Four-year-old Preston Monington gets his swing on with his grandma Lathena Birchfield Monday afternoon at Harmon Park.
Popular country artist Willie Nelson once sang a song called ‘Blue Skies’ with the following lyrics:
Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but blue skies from now on
That seems to have been the tune being hummed by residents throughout the county the last few days as Star Photographer Larry N. Souders found the outdoors buzzing with activity.