Waterfalls and Snow in the Smokies

A couple of weeks ago John and I decided
to meet in the Smokies at our cabin so
that he wouldn't have to come as far.
This is one of my favorite places to be,
so I left here on a Thursday afternoon and got
there just as it was getting dark. John
arrived at around 2:00 am. There was a
winter storm warning on Friday starting
at 3:00 pm, so we decided that if we
were to get in any hiking we better
get out Friday morning or we may not
get to go. So we set off to try to get
a little hiking in. We drove up to
Laurel Falls. It is a little over a mile
hike back to the falls. This is not our first
time back there, but the falls was really
flowing, more water than either of us could
remember in a while. It is so peaceful on
those walks, not to many people out since
they were calling for the storm. Pretty much
had it all to ourselves.

We were snowed in on Friday night and opted
not to go out and even try it on Sat. So we just
stayed in and enjoyed the cabin, John made
a fire and of course we hit the hot tub a few
times. On Sunday we decided to venture
out and at least just go driving. This is a few
pictures of a trail that we took, there were alot
of trees down all aver I think because of all the
rain, they had been up rooted.

We also headed out toward Cades Cove, to do
a drive through, thought that the views would
be awesome with the snow. Others didn't think
we should be back there, they had the road closed,
so we decided to just walk back a ways. Of course
we didn't walk all the way back, only a couple of
miles.

The beauty of the earth is in abundance.