Fall Miscellany

I downloaded a copy of Windows Live Writer, and wow, how much easier it makes it to upload pictures to WordPress.  WordPress has a very dorky cumbersome interface to put pictures in the blog, unless you want to use their gallery feature.  With Live Writer, you can set up your post in a Word-like environment, and then click Publish, and it puts the whole thing in your blog.

 

Here are some recent pictures of dogs and pretty fall color.

Miss Ginger – who could resist that face?

Sammy sleeping on the balcony

Kousa dogwood:

The three girls snuggled up together behind the couch.

Truffle looking like a fox

Sumac

This was the tupelo about a week ago:

And here it is today:

Here you can see that Ginger is bigger at nine months than Truffle.

Visit to East Tennessee

We spent a week in northeast Tennessee, near Cherokee National Forest.  Here are a few pictures from the area.  This is a little park in Jonesborough.

Winged Deer State Park in Johnson City

Horse Creek in Greene County

The Nolichuckey River outside the cabin we rented.

Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park

Nolichuckey River near Erwin

A bridge over a creek near the cabin.  I am sure this gets flooded over in rainy times.

Here and there you see terrible infestations of kudzu, which can grow a foot a day and totally smothers everything in its path.

Waterfall at Blue Hole, north of Elizabethton.  This is in a beautiful little gorge, with numerous other small falls as the creek cascades down the mountain.

I think this was also at Blue Hole, but I am not sure, because we saw so many lovely creeks, and I get the pictures confused.

Watauga Lake, near Hampton

Creek at Limestone Cove

View of Cherokee Lake from the overlook at Panther Creek State Park

Riverwalk in Knoxville.  This is a lovely long path along the Tennessee River.

Nolichuckey River near the cabin, one morning.

Waterfall on Paint Creek, in south Greene County