COVE LAKE STATE PARK TENNESSEE
Saturday, June 2, 2018 The plan was to leave the house by 6 AM to attempt some bird photography in Cove Lake State Park, which is located about 20 miles north of Knoxville, Tennesee. Marcy had heard this was a good place for birds and after checking the Internet, we decided to go for it. […]
CADES COVE AFTER SUNSET – BEARS AND FIREFLIES
It had been a long day at work and I arrived home tired. I did have a list of yard chores to get to, but Marcy had planned on going to Cades Cove for evening pictures, so I decided to forsake home tasks and ride along. Our outing was pleasant. The weather had been about […]
ICONIC IMAGES OF SPAIN
Our tour of Portugal and Spain included a good deal of windshield time and today we were settled in for the 417 Kilometer (260 mile) drive from Granada to Madrid along the A-4 / E-5 Autovia del Sur. The long hours of cross-country travel across La Mancha featured views of tens of thousands of olive trees […]
NOT MY CIRCUS, NOT MY MONKEY
The Barbary Macaques of Gibralter The opportunities for blog titles here were endless, but the one above seemed to fit best. The Barbary Macaques in Gibraltar are the only wild monkey population in the European continent. A fun fact is that monkeys usually have tails and apes have none, but these are tail-less monkeys. Gibralter may have a famous […]
Pelligro – Desprendimientos
From the comfort of my tour bus seat, an ominous warning about desprendimientos 25 kilometers ahead was of no immediate concern. Nevertheless, I did wonder what all the fuss was about. A later trip to Google Translate revealed ominous pictures of roadways covered with landslides of giant boulders, but we were spared. Our tour is taking […]
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 […]
