There are thousands of different salt and pepper shakers at the Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Gatlinburg. We went out of curiosity. I was amazed. Of course I had to buy a set (second from last image). At an antique store on the way home in Beaver Creek, Hagerstown, Maryland I bought a frog teapot (last image).
An small assortment of wildlife and plants that we found in the Blue Ridge Mountains and Gatlinburg.
Views from a couple of lookouts along Newfoundland Gap Road plus one waterfall photograph. Time of day and how much foreground changes the look of the image. Changing the skies would change the feeling a lot too.
For a change of scenery we explored the area for covered bridges. We saw two of the 6 in this list: List of covered bridges in Tennessee – Wikipedia. The countryside is very lovely in Sevier County. Included are two old houses at the end.
We stayed for a week at Bent Creek Golf Resort, a Hilton Vacation Club in Gatlinburg, Tennessee while we explored the Great Smoky Mountains nearby. I loved the rooms which included all the amenities for a long stay. It was clean and quiet. I didn’t like the golf course because I could not walk around it or enjoy nature there. We could only look at it from a distance. One morning we were granted a brief look at the grounds before the golfers got there. Golf courses are such a waste of land and provide little for wildlife.
I did 5 posts about Cades Cove starting on May 21 (see right side menu bar for links to the posts). Historicbuildings/cades-cove.html
This is the last one from Tennessee with old doors for Thursday Doors https://nofacilities.com/2024/05/30/on-board-the-delta-pearl/.
We rode the cable cars to the Gatlinburg Sky Trail – Hike in SkyPark for fun. I included a couple of odd things we saw in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Enormous pickup trucks and SUVs are the norm down south.
Gatlinburg is 1,893 feet (577 meters) above sea level. And Clingman’s Dome (we drove there) in Smokey NP is 6,643 feet.
On our second drive though Roaring Fork I concentrated on nature. The Smokies are full of wildflowers in the spring. I saw many new species. I added a couple of things seen other places to this post. I welcome corrections to my attempts at identification.
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