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Tennessee
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After thirty years in Southern California, we have moved to Knoxville Tennessee. What a beautiful state! I will be adding pictures to this page all year, so keep checking back. |
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Spring has arrived!
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Tulips are peeking through their protective leaves. |
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The Bumble Bee is checking out all the flowers. |
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The rain drops from last night help to bring out the bright colors. |
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Or, they highlight the beauty of a leaf. |
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Stop and contemplate the serenity surrounding the statue of St Francis of Assisi, which looks at home in the cool shade. |
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The moss has made a soft resting spot for the dove. |
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The new red berries look like leftovers from Christmas. |
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Tulips are popping up everywhere. |
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As are mini pansies. |
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Tulips and Daffodils. |
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Beautiful flowers are sprinkled all through the grass. |
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All the trees are blooming. |
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Color is everywhere. |
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Dandelions too! |
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A spring walkway. |
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More daffodils and tulips. |
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Another colorful walkway. |
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Tulip Trees are in full bloom. |
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Remember making clover necklaces? |
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A sea of orange lilies. |
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Boomsday in Knoxville
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Over the Labor Day weekend Knoxville has a celebration called Boomsday. There is music, food and fireworks. Over 350,000 people attend, so we decided to view the fireworks from a hill down the street from our home. This is the view from seven miles away. |
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Mushrooms
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OK, so I like mushrooms! |
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Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Cades Cove is a six mile long cove which takes you back in time to the 1830s. There is an eleven mile one-way road that takes you past churches, homes and meadows which have a different look every season. |
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This Methodist Church was built in 1902 by J.D. McCampbell, a blacksmith and carpenter, in 115 days for $115. |
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Pews inside the Methodist Church |
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Col. Hamp Tipton had this house built in the early 1870s. The property has a smokehouse, blacksmith and carpentry shops, a bee house and a woodshed. |
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This is a cantilever barn on the Tipton property. The cantilever design was copied from European barns. |
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There is plenty of wildlife in Cades Cove: foxes, wolfs, wild turkey, bear and deer. |
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A little humor from the park rangers. They placed pelts from a bear and a beaver by the Do Not Feed the Wildlife sign. The pelts are for educational purposes so the public can feel the fur. |
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Mingus Mill is actually in a different part of the park and is still grinding corn into cornmeal as it was in the 1800s. |
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Fall is here!
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This is a church taken from my car on Interstate 640. |
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Norris Lake is stunning at this time of the year. |
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An old house surrounded by beautiful trees. |
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