Finding Beauty Friday in the Hills of TN. Cades Cove

Good morning ladies, Today I am joining Claudia's "Friday Finding Beauty" event on Dipity Road. Today all the participating blogs can post whatever they like on their blog that touched them in some way and made them feel, see, or appreciate a moment of beauty in their lives.
Beauty comes in all sizes, shapes and forms. Some you can see and touch, others you can only feel in your heart I believe you can find beauty in everything if you look hard enough.
The beauty I'd like to share this week is a trip I took with my Church Senior Group
to Gatlinburg and Cade's Cove 2 weeks ago. I have to thanks God that he gave us such a beautiful cool week to go. We left here on a Monday morning and arrived late that evening....
The first picture was taken around 6:30 AM from the balcony of our Motel room in Pigeon Forge the first morning. We spent 2 days here and then moved to Gatlinburg next to the Convention Center.

Cade's Cove Primitive Baptist Church and my Church Group

As always I have to get a shot of the Cemetery so much history here would love to know about these folks and their lives..

Cade's Coves visitors Center and homestead... this place took me back to my childhood back on the farm, the only thing we didn't have as the old mill building..lol..no streams like this in MS and not many hills but all the barns and cribs and warn wagon really took me back...

This looks just like our farm house except ours was 1 story and had red brick like siding plus tin roof..

                                                           the old grits mill.

                      the first thing that came to mind was "and a river ran though it"

                             corn crib...I hated this building on the farm..snakes loved it...

      on the hill over looking the farm..amazing view...

We were entertained by a wonderful couple, everyone who was watching joined in and sang..it was amazing....

My favorite place on the farm was the hay barn and where we kept the mule tack and wagon....of course we didn't have the split rail fence, just barb wire and post.

We really enjoyed the day here and ended it at the Apple Barn in Pigeon Forge for a late lunch and then returned to the motel for everyone to rest before going out for supper. I'm ashamed to say I was one of them that took a nap...lol..my face was really hurting by now.

Tomorrow our trip to Dolly Wood and meeting a legend in the area...

A common sight on the bus ride to & in Cade's Cove. I didn't get to take too many pictures from the bus because of the tinted windows..

Friday's Family Foto

My friend, Deborah, hosts Friday's Favorite Family Foto. I hope you enjoy my photos.... Please drop by her blog and see what family photos others have posted!
Last week I chose pictures of my oldest Grandson, This week I have chosen my favorite picture of my youngest Grandson, Connor, he is 11 and all boy. He started life on a little shaky ground, his Mom, had toxemia and they had to do emergency surgery 3 weeks early, plus, Connor was breech...lol...he was ready to hit the ground running and hadn't stop yet...he started out at a mere 5 lbs, but time he was 4 mos old his nickname was Buddha Baby ..lol..he filled out real fast. Here are a few things he loves....and pictures I love...

He was our little happy redhead....

He loves his Jeep...his Daddy found on old WWII jeep and restored it and it will be his when he's old enough to drive.

He loved corn,

He loves helping his Bobby feed the Chickens

He still loves the chickens and gathering eggs

He loves is Bobby and Bobby's old truck

He loves his little Sister

He loves to ride Horses

He loves baseball

He loves his big bull frog that hangs out near their pool, he has always loved running and catching frogs.

He loves to fish, he won the Fishing Rodeo 2 yrs in a row....

He loves hunting with his Dad and then getting on the phone and bragging to his Cousin Keifer that he got the first Buck of the year.

He loves his video games, his WII and his Computer

And he really loves his Jasper...

He is so sweet and is a true Southern country boy, he has that slow country southern drawl and can spin a yarn a mile long. His 1, 2 and 3 grade teachers all wanted to take him home with them so he could tell them his stories...lol..they spent half of the class time listening to him talk and tell his tales, and beleive me he could tell some good ones. He used to tell us he remembered when he was old, along, long time ago...but he stoped talking about that when he was about 3 .....makes you wonder? He is also what you would call and old soul, he can't stand change. When they bought their new car he wanted the old one back.

I hope you enjoyed my little picture story about Connor and the things he loves. And things that make me love him so much.