Horseshoe at Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia

Another photograph first shown in the color original, then sepia and then black and white.

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Chicken Coop and other out structures at Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia

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Out Structures at Settler's Museum of Southwest Virginia

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The Barn at Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia

2 different photographs of one of the barns at the museum.

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Gregg Cable House at Cades Cove - wintertime

This photograph is of the Gregg Cable homeplace at Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Barn at Tipton Place in Cades Cove

I always have to stop at this barn when I am in Cades Cove. When I was 18 years old and visiting Cades Cove for the first time I stepped up on a ladder in this barn. When I stepped down I stepped on a nail. Got a tetanus booster shot because of it. Several years later I also worked with a decendant of this family. I can never go to Cades Cove without thinking fondly of C.O. Tipton, we called him Tip. He has been retired for many years now, boy, the stories he could tell. He was a real story teller, he captured everybody's attention when he started with one of his great stories. Last time I heard, his health was failing, and I keep meaning to go see him. I called him on his birthday a couple of years ago, and he was shocked I knew it was his birthday.

I also had a real hard time waiting here for a shot without people, but it was worth it for me.

Cades Cove in Smoky Mountains

These 2 photographs make me think of the Wild, Wild West for some reason. It doesn't really look like the Smokies to me. But I do like the look.

This barn I keep trying to get right. The light is always so harsh by the time I get to this location in Cades Cove. I did you a filter, and it looks a little better, just wish could manage to get to this point in the cove earlier in the day.

Random structures in Cades Cove

The top photograph is the Dan Lawson Place from a distance. I don't think I have ever looked back at this site before. Not sure why I did now, maybe because I was taking some photos in the rearview mirror. I liked what I saw, so I probably will look back at this homeplace more often.

The 2nd and 3rd photos are structures at the Tipton Place area. I have another post of this area later this week.

The last photograph was taken while standing next to the Dan Lawson cabin. Just liked the view.

Cable Mill area in Cades Cove

The Cable Mill area is the largest home place in Cades Cove. The corn meal is here, which I showed with the Copperheads photos, and am not showing with this post.I have always liked this barn, it is real hard to capture a photograph of it without people. (This area is the most crowded on the loop road in Cades Cove due to the restroom facilities, and there is quite a bit here to see.)
They still demonstrate the Sorghum mill here in the fall, but I have never been there when they were using it.

Just another structure in the area.

These are the last of the Labor Day trip to Cades Cove. I think this is a record for me. I have gone through all the photos, they are posted and filed away for later. Now I need to start going back to June's St Pete trip (going again in October) and the July 4th Perry's Water Lilies trip. I just decided to tackle Cades Cove immediately. Hope everybody has enjoyed this trip through this wonderful cove, which is a very small portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Maybe it will inspire a trip in this direction. Remember the Smokeys (as us locals call it) is the only national park with no entrance fee, and it is the most visited park.

Days Gone By

We were invited to a neighbor's house for me to take photos of his farm.He still has his old tractor in the barn.

And actually turns the crank several turns every Monday morning.

Although he has not started it in several years. He said it has been in his family 65 years.

I just wandered around and took photos.

The clothes line is my favorite.

Thank you James Snodderly for an enjoyable afternoon.

Be watching for the post of him feeding his cattle.