Adan found a great site on the western border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, just a few miles outside of Maryville, TN.
Adan found a great site on the western border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, just a few miles outside of Maryville, TN.
What beautiful weather you had for your camping trip! Avoiding Booms Day--SMART!!!
Al-Dad and I once camped in that Abrams Creek area and found more solitude there than were we to have gone to central or eastern sites.As for Zoe, she's just hiding her feelings. Of course, she missed you! Many more happy trail to you.
Love,
M
That solitude was exactly what we sought. Going down on a Sunday of Labor Day weekend was pretty risky; the centrally-located spots would have been overrun. As it was, we barely got that last space in the campground.
That must have been what Z was trying to tell us as she bit our ankles upon our return :-)
Thanks for the kind wishes,
Love,
A
Website malfunction: a wildflower identification provided by Jennifer's grandmother (whose horticultural prowess was previously mentioned in the lotus blog entry) was misplaced. I'll copy it below, with the added note that this info comes from Fran's copy of _Wildflowers in Color_ by Stupka, a University of Tennessee flower expert:
"Fun! Food! Flowers!
'Cardinal-flower' Lobelia cardinalis of the Bluebell family
- the only red-flowered species of Lobelia in the Southern Appalachians; the others are bluish or purplish. It grows along streamsides, in roadside ditches, in marshes and wet meadows at the lowest altitudes to over 3,500 feet.
Aren't you glad you asked?"
Yes, absolutely! Many thanks.