COLOR is always a big draw to East Tennessee
in the fall. Dogs really like to ride and see the leaves.













Fall....a great time
to be alive in East Tennessee!


Mountains...leaves...sky..

SUMMER!


June 1, 2010 and we just got home from a long weekend in the Mountains.
A cabin in Laurel Valley was our base camp and the weather was typical...rain...hot...fog...beautiful skies...and cool nights.

On our second day of golf we moved two turtles from two fairways, saw a beaver,
a young raccoon and a flock of wild Turkeys. Leaving this afternoon we found a very young turtle in the middle of the road with a cracked shell and an injured leg. It looked like a dog had picked him or her up. He or she was moved from the road to a wet area and we all wished he or she well as we came home.

Here are some pictures from the trip.

LONG TIME NO POSTS!

In the beginning this was going to be a place
to drop off Southern thoughts and pictures.
Looks like it still is!

Lets update this bad boy a tad..welcome to
2010.


How in the world have you been?
Us? Oh brother we had SNOW this winter in
East Tennessee, something we just don't understand
or allow!
Little River (yep the same one that starts up high
in the Smoky Mountains) was colder than a
lawyer's heart this winter.
Taz our WONDER BEAGLE had
zero use for the cold or the snow
>

We lost most of the old fence in a wind storm
last March and the new one did just fine over the
winter

Lots more pictures and thoughts to post...stay tuned!

Happy birthday to
Alta LaRue Abercrombie Johnson
(Heading out to her 91st birthday party in downtown
Maryville, a place she really loved..especially after
she got to restore her Broadway building "Now this one looks
the BEST!" in 2005)

If she had stayed on this
earth today she would be 93 years young.

Today her
continuing years are being celebrated
in a very special place and the guest list
is heavenly to say the least.

In attendance will be her Mother Alta Aimes Abacrombie,
her daddy Harry, her husband Charles Walker Johnson,
her favorite Aunts and Uncles numerous KKG sorority
sisters and her dogs...Zipper, Penny, Cheyenne, Mike, Tiger, Cody (who she financed one half of a two thousand dollar hip replacement for) his half sister Denver, Spud, Jackson, various rabbits, a pheasant named Ike, an alligator named Bubba and one cat whose name is known only
to LaRue. Dropping in all day with gifts of love will be
families and friends from four bridge clubs along with the hundreds of people who she touched in her short 92 years here.
(When we were shopping for pumpkins (at the age
of 91) she insisted on getting
two...when asked how to use them naturally she came up with
this idea!)


Be still this afternoon and if you knew her you will be
able to hear the laughter, cards shuffling and wine glasses
ringing.


Something you didn't know about
Alta LaRue....
Her name is French and the
translation is High Street.
Although she was born and NAMED
in Wyoming the man she married
(Charles W. Johnson) was born in
Tennessee and grew up on.......
High Street.

THE national PARK

NOVEMBER IS HERE BUT FALL IS NOT GONE!!!!!
2008










FALL 2008

OCT 10th 2008
smoky mountains and cades cove