Lovely day

Persimmons. Someone needs to shake them down and make persimmon butter.

Late October color

I'm not gettting out to take photos these days (soon!) but the colors are starting to hit their second stage....

In Tennessee

Smokey Mountains across Tellico Lake.


On the road, near Ballplay.

At Cherokee Lake

More of the same

Hiwassee Lake.


Apalachia Lake.


Shulers Creek meets the "dry gorge" of the Hiwassee.

Beautiful fall day

Playing around

I got a new camera to take closeups, since it was the one thing my trusty Kodak zoom couldn't do well. It's about time to record the flowers before they go away, anyway.

We have rain!

It's been a long time coming. So the pictures aren't much but today I'm thinking of my parents, married 70 years ago today amid the wreckage of a late southern New England hurricane....

Just a hint of fall

Sourwood. Dogwoods are coloring, too.

Looking a bit like fall now....

Church picnics

Beautiful places for them everywhere around here, this is a nice one.

Southern videos

Over at the Knoxville News, online editor Jack Lail has a personal blog called Random Mumblings, mostly about journalism, but sometimes he points out things of local interest, like this great You Tube site from photojournalist Dan McCoig that he calls Dan Traveling.

Most of the videos are from places around the South, especially North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Lail's link was to a video on the great face jug makers at King's Pottery in Seagrove NC.

Apple time

My favorite time of the year, having grown up in an old apple orchard. Cider House, McCaysville Ga:

Fun with trains

Over at Mineral Bluff, Ga, they were having the second annual Ride the Rails festival. The old depot was renovated last year and now houses a growing model train layout.

On the outside, old timers and kids were having fun with trains.





(For some reason, size and layout isn't working today on my Blogger account.)

Glorious days

With the occasional touch of menace....

More september scenes

Finally this year we have decent hydrangeas.

Figs are ripening

More berries, on Devil's Walking Stick. (Anyone know what the previous blue berries are? Some sort of vibernum (prunifolium?), I assume....)

Lynne is churning out beautiful baskets.

Sign outside a govt office, won't say which one.....