That Georgia Biologist

Last summer I had the chance to hike one of my all-time favorite trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with my family, but never got around to posting photos! So here you go! It is the Schoolhouse Gap trail. It is very easy to hike and wide, and flows by a lovely stream. All in all it is just a fantastic and serene walk through the woods and I can't recommend it enough! I especially like all the flowers in the spring, which persist into summer (this trip was in mid-June). Enough of my blabbing, let's get on with the photos!! :D  It's always more fun hiking with friends or family :D  I love the size and scope in these pictures - my family gives really good scale for just how tall these trees are!!! There's something about things being so green, and so large, and so good ...that is so refreshing in today's world. Till the next time!!

So last summer, my family and I took a splendid little trip up to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and had fun touring Cades Cove. As two years prior I had already filmed Cades Cove, I did not film anything this time around but instead focused on having fun with my camera. I even wrote a blog post about my trip! But then promptly forgot I even had a blog for the next eight months of my life... So I was thinking, the photos are just as great as ever, and I would love to share them, so here is the long over due part two of my Cades Cove series!! :D It was really fun revisiting the former (I believe) Baptist Church in the Cove. I can never get enough of that beautiful mountain view!! I really liked the leading lines in this photograph, from the bottom left of the shot to the actual mill as a destination for the viewer's eyes. THIS is Tennessee!!! :D And a nice cabin to wrap everything up! Hope you enjoyed my photos! :)

One of my two all-time favorite places to visit in the world is Greenfield Village! For the last fourteen years plus my grandparents have kindly taken my family and I there every summer, and lots of fun family memories have been made! For those of you who sadly haven't heard of it before, Greenfield Village is an outdoor living history museum in Detroit that Henry Ford created way back in 1929. Some of the highlights include the Wright brother's home and cycle shop, Ford birthplace, and Edison's New Jersey lab. All of these major original buildings of American history Ford bought, disassembled, and then reassembled in Detroit at Greenfield Village. Add a steam train, Model T car rides, and a 1913 carousel, you got a really immersive trip into the past. For a major history buff like myself, it's pretty much heaven! ;) Anyways, throughout the summer Greenfield Village hosts a number of special events. Even though I have visited the Village many many times, we have no