Great Smoky Mountains - Cades Cove V

 BEARS!!!!!!!

YES! Finally!  

I guess the Forth time visits to G.S.M. was a charm.

We were driving on the trail road with everyone else and we actually  saw three at once!  What a sight!  They did cause a traffic jam (Bear Jam) on the road as everyone stopped to look.

We thought the bear is a mythical animal in the Great Smokys as we had never seen them.

It's real!  We also saw another one cross in front of our car on the The Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail that one surprised us an I'm glad we were in the car.

We never saw that many animals in the Mountains not even rabbit or squirrel.

We see more of them in our back yard at home.  We did get lucky this trip.

I'm so glad I had my good telephoto zoom lens with me this time or they would have been just a tiny spot in the picture .
Hope we can go back and see them again  .....  still from a distance :-)

Great Smoky Mountains - HAIR CRISIS

Yep!  
It was the triumph of our trip.  

Christina's Hair Crisis.  
All tangled up in a brush.

Good thing, Mama was there to rescue! :-)

Saint Anne's Hill

Over the weekend we had a great time at the Saint Anne's Hill in Dayton.

The whole community was open for garage sale.

What an awesome idea.  

We've been just driving by many, many years but it was our first time to walk around the neighborhood.  

I have to say,  I LOVED IT.  
What a beautifully little neighborhood.   

Lovely old houses, cozy little Gardens in every home, wrought iron fences, flowers and trees everywhere......  
I was amazed.

Although, Christina was busy talking about a Ghost who lives in old houses.

LOL

Even with a Ghost's help or not, we found few lovely things.  

                     I got this lovely oil painting for $8 and this tiny pottery for $3.

       This pretty British candy can and this German Holiday Cookie can for $.50 each.

Finally, Christina found this vintage wind up panda bear and this CUTE pooping panda. 

LOL
What a GREAT deal!  

I think this was the best garage sale experience I ever had.  What a fun!

I can't wait to go back next time.  

Hope you can make it too.

outting

It's fun to go out for a putt putt golf with the girls.

and some ice cream at The Youngs Jersey Dairy
Strawberry cheese cake! Yumm!

and feeding a goat is always interesting.
The food can be gone in seconds from your hand.

I'm glad Christina and her friend Laura had fun.