FAWNING OVER BERRY COLLEGE
Because there are so many subjects to report from our day trip to Berry College, this may be a multi-blog Saturday. The school is 153 miles south of us in Rome, Georgia and is distinguished as having the largest contiguous campus in the world at around 22,000 acres. We first heard of Berry College last […]
CADES COVE WITH MADELYN
Our daughter and son-in-law had an out-of-town soccer tournament with their oldest, so we had a chance to host Madelyn this past weekend. Her birthday was two days earlier and we promised her a day of belated celebration. A picnic in the Smokies sounded the best after we floated a number of choices, but the […]
2018 SANDHILL CRANE EXCURSION
Last January (2017), Marcy and I enjoyed a day trip to the Hiwassee River Sandhill Crane Festival hosted in the little town of Birchfield, Tennessee. Along with Marcy and me, there were hundreds of other bird watchers queued up at the local high school to be ferried by school buses to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources […]
WINTER SATURDAY DAY TRIP
We saw pictures of a beautifully frozen Bald River Falls the other day and figured we might drive over on Saturday to get our own pictures. The thermometer was showing 5 degrees in the early morning and we talked ourselves out of that, but we did settle on a quick trip to Cades Cove for […]
A THANKSGIVING TO REMEMBER
A very different Thanksgiving! Our children and their families were unable to join us for the traditional Thanksgiving dinner because they were enjoying the day with their in-laws. Knowing that I would probably feel a little glum and lonely, I thought it would be the perfect time to check off a bucket list item…hiking to […]
DAY TRIP TO ABINGDON, VIRGINIA
We enjoyed yet another Saturday fall outing, this time to the Barter Theatre, 140 miles away in Abingdon, Virginia. It is the last weekend in October and we are still seeing bright and dry conditions with temperatures in the 80s. I think we’ve had just one rainy day since August and the leaf colors are […]
