A July Evening Sky

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One advantage to living along a golf course is that we can walk out the back yard and get a clear view of the sky.  Often the sky is beautiful, as it was on a July evening when the setting sun turned clouds (and jet contrails) to red.

 

 

Morning on the Golf Course

 

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For several years after I retired Betsy and I would get up early in the morning so we could walk the golf course behind our house before the golfers were on the course.It wasn’t always ely to get up at the crack of dawn, but we persisted.  Besides, the Druid Hills golf course was beautiful and very peaceful at that early hour.

I got this picture one morning as the sun started to pop up over the mountains to the east of us.  What a way to start the day! 

 

 

 

Indian Creek Falls

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Indian Creek Falls is a pretty little waterfall on the North Carolina side of the Smokies,,near the Deep Creek campground.  Betsy ands I visited Indian Creek Falls a few times over the years.  I used software on this picture of the waterfall to make the image .look more like a painting.

The Abyss

 

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The Grand Canyon is certainly grand!  Every view point offers a different view of the amazing canyon.  I got this photo of the Abyss when we visited in 2011. 

 

 

Before the Deer

 

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For the first ten years or so we lived here in the Glade, we had beautiful roses in our front yard.  We had a rose bed along the street in from of our house and other rose beds on each side of the driveway.  The roses did very well and bloomed beautifully. People would often stop at the house to admire them.

Then the deer moved in.

Now the only roses that bloom are in containers on the deck.  Most of the roses in the from yard were replaced by iris, which deer don’t like.  The front yard looks very dull during much of the year, but at least we have pictures to remember what it used to look like.

 

 

Byrd Lake

 

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We are fortunate to have Cumberland Mountain State Park near us — just outside the Crossville city limits.

The park was established by the federal government is 1938 and the Civilian Conservation Corp began construction on the park’s structures.  The biggest structure at the park was the stone brigand dam that fired Byrd Lake.  That bridge, in fact, was the largest structure made by the CCC.   Cumberland Mountain became a Tennessee state park in 1940;

I got the above picture while walking along a portion of Byrd Lake . 

 

Azalea Blossoms

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My Beautiful Bride and I went to Biltmore for our annual Spring visit.  Unfortunately many of the azaleas at Biltmore had already bloomed out.  Fortunately we still have azalea in our yard that are still putting on a show.