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Just Out for a Morning Walk


 I know what you're thinking. Since I have been posting about Cades' Cove all week, it is only natural that you would think this scene is right out of a lovely mountain meadow.


Or maybe it could be from some of the hiking trails near the Smoky Mountain National Park Greenbrier entrance, one of our favorite hiking places.


Actually, it is near the Greenview Cemetery, about 1/4 mile from our house in beautiful, steamy North Alabama. 

Beauty is everywhere.  We just have to open our eyes and take time to look.

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  1. lil red henJune 28, 2012 at 2:04 PM

    It appears the grass is abundant for them. Yesterday we saw three deer scrounging for feed where Popa had moved troughs. Some feed had sifted through holes in the troughs. Really quite pitiful when the wildlife begins to suffer.

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  2. Faith, Folklore, and FriendsJune 28, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    It is drier here now; those photos were made a couple of weeks ago. As pretty as they are, many people don't like them because they eat up the flowers and gardens if there is not a fence to keep them out. Fortunately, I have a fence around my backyard so they don't get in my garden. Can't say the same about the squirrels! :)

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  3. Janet,June 28, 2012 at 9:14 PM

    Very pretty sight. We see deer all the time in our yard. They just stare at you, but they've been nibbling on our green beans lately, and my husband doesn't like that.

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    1. Faith, Folklore, and FriendsJune 29, 2012 at 1:13 PM

      Thanks, Janet. The deer have eaten my friends' hostas out of the yard...not deer lovers right now. :)

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