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.

 

Memories of Fall Creek Falls

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April  21, 2001, was a very special day for me.  On that day Betsy and I went to Fall Creek Falls state Park here in Tennessee.  We very much enjoyed the beautiful scenery and the waterfalls in the park.  It was here that we began our quest to visit as many waterfalls as possible, and we visited several hundred over the following years.

But as exciting as that was, even more exciting was that it was at Fall Creek Falls that I got my first kiss from Betsy.  Now that is a cause for celebration.

I got this picture of My Beautiful Bride in 2013.  We were walking along Cane Creek when she noticed this log and decided it would make a good spot to enjoy the scenery.

 

 

 

Whitewater Falls

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For many years after we were married (when we were young enough and healthy enough to hike), Betsy and I would ‘collect’ waterfalls — trying to visit as many as we could.  We both are relegated to walkers nowadays, but we have pictures and memories which allow us to keep enjoying ‘our’ waterfalls.

One of our favorite waterfalls is Whitewater Falls in South Carolina.  We’v visited it several times over the years.  I got the picture I used to create this poster back in 2014.  I hope you like it. 

 

 

Betsy at Petit Jean

 

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When Betsy and I went to Mt. Nebo State Park in Arkansas, we worked in visits to two other state parks— Petit Jean State Park (usually on our way to Mt. Nebo) and Mount Magazine (one ay during our stay at Mt. Nebo).  I got this picture of Betsy at Petit Jean when we visited Petit Jean last year.