Oh my heavens, I'm so behind. Where has the time gone? I have all these wonderful photos from an absolutely amazing trip to Tennessee in May (T5 - Tennessee Trip Two-Thousand Ten) and due to the move to Texas I never finished putting them up. You saw the rafting trip, my new shoes and camelbak, heard about Turtle and my SmartWool socks. Up next is Cades Cove. If you recall way, way, way back to the early summer postings I said that Cades Cove would be a post of its own. Well, here it is...
Cades Cove is a motor and bike loop of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Frontiersmen settled there before it became part of the park and abundant wildlife are present here. There are settlers' homes, churches, wildflower fields, a sorghum mill and a cable mill, the mill flume, and a cantilever barn.
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| An Old Homestead |
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| Bell Tower of the Methodist Church |
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| Cades Cove Meadow view - there were many deer in this meadow |
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| The cantilever barn beside a quaint cold stream river |
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| The mill and water wheel |
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| Another bigger homestead |
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| View of the Cades Cove Motor Loop from our rearview mirror |
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| A deer in the meadow. We also saw a mama bear and her two bear cubs but they were a good 300 hunter's yards away so we were unable to get a good photograph even with my bigger zoom lens. They just looked like black humps. |
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| A young deer pouncing across a sun streaked meadow |
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| These fences framed some of the lovely meadows. This shot was taken just before the sun set over the mountains. |
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| Kyle (in his Sanooks) contemplating by a stream |
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| An old barn awash in the setting sunlight |
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| The Methodist Church |
It was a delightful trip to begin our journey into the Smoky Mountains. We made it back, traipsed through a lovely trail with the waterfall pictured in the rafting post, ate some KFC on the porch with the mountains among us and contemplated the next day's hiking adventures in the The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Stay tuned for more T5!
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