This footbridge is one of the special places in the Greenbrier section of the Great Smoky Mountains. It crosses the Ramsay Prong of the Little Pigeon River at the beginning of the trail that leads up to the Ramsay Cascades waterfall, and from there on up to the...
This is one of those special times. The Rosy Fingers of Dawn seeping into the sky above the Smoky Mountains. The cabins coming to life, greeting the day with their own lights. You can just stand here for a while and watch the moments unfold, with the light changing...
Lynn Camp gets its name from a logging camp of the Little River Lumber Company in the 1920s. The old railroad trace provides a wide, flat path that is popular for horseback riding. I love to walk along the old railroad grade beside the Lynn Camp Prong in the Great...
It seems like every year as we move from August to September, all the signs suddenly point to the end of summer. In these Smoky Mountains photos of buck deer in Cades Cove, you can almost feel what they feel. The easy days are slipping away ... the days of fattening...
William "Fighting Billy" Tipton was Revolutionary War veteran and the first of the Tipton clan to acquire land in the Smoky Mountains. This was in the 1820s under Tennessee's Land Grant program. Colonel Hamp Tipton, a veteran of the Civil War, built the two story...
Welcome to Friday. A weekend! Gratitude for another day. The simple beauty of dawn drifting towards the fullness of the day, weather becoming whatever it will. The road beckons, cares and worries in the rearview mirror. Miles away. There are many opportunities in the...
Along Glades Road, in the heart of Gatlinburg's historic Arts and Crafts Loop, you will find Morning Mist Village. Take a break from your Smoky Mountain exploring, and head out Rt. 321 at stoplight number 3 in Gatlinburg. Just past Food City, and then McDonalds, turn...
If you drive into some of the less traveled areas of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, such as Greenbrier or Tremont, eventually the road turns to gravel, and in summer you will start to see large quantities of butterflies. So many that sometimes it's hard to...