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 .