This must be the place: ‘When the trees are bare and the barns are white with frost’

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Wednesday, 28/02/2024

Hello from Room 211 at the Red Roof Inn just off Interstate 64 in Lexington, Kentucky. Bright, warm rays of sunshine stream into the east-facing window of the $43.95 per night cheap motel room. Crisp morning air rolls across the city and nearby horse country. 

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This must be the place: Winter’s cold, spring erases, and the calm away by the storm is chasing

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Wednesday, 14/10/2020

Awakening in the hotel room in downtown Pineville, Kentucky, it took me a moment to realize where I was this past Sunday morning. I found myself up in the small mountain town on Saturday night for a music showcase at the nearby Laurel Cove Amphitheater of emerging acts from just down the road in Lexington. 

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