The Smoky Mountains in Tennessee are one of my favorite places in the world! Here’s a view from a hike I went on this summer. An incredible time on a peak right up there with the clouds. Amazing! The Smoky Mtns are special to me for all the great memories. Trips, Rock Hopping, Hikes, and my all time favorite–I proposed to my bride, she said yes, and my life was forever changed! That was a good day.
Here’s some pics of our hike from this summer:
I’m always amazed by nature and the glory it gives to our Creator. And I doubt we will ever come to the end of all there is to see. What I do see, is the imagination and creativity at a whole new level. I found this on my recent trip to Tennessee, waaay back in the mountains. I literally reached down to pick up what looked like an amazing tiny carving of a wooden shield with a cross on it. (In Tennessee, they’d call it, “whittling” or as they would say, “we-ut-lin” ) Just as I’m thinking somebody has lost an unbelievable piece of work, all of a sudden, it flies away. After some research, I found out it’s called a Clymene Haploa Moth. 
This is the second sketch I’ve done of LeConte Lodge in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Someone saw the other one I’d done on google and contacted me and said this is where they were engaged and asked if I would do another one with their engagement date on it. It’s always a privilege to be a small part of the special occasions in people’s lives. This is one of the reasons I enjoy drawing.
Eagle’s Nest Outfitters is a very cool company that makes and sells hammocks out of Asheville, North Carolina. A few years ago, someone brought an ENO hammock to camp. Everyone wanted to lay in it. The next year, 2 more showed up. This year, there was a village of hammocks! Here are just a few hanging around–and that is exactly what they’re for: hanging out, and having conversations (That’s when people are around other people and you talk about stuff and share life and laugh. It’s what people did before texting)
Check out their website at: eaglesnestoutfittersinc.com and get a hammock–you won’t regret!
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