Cumberland Waterfalls, KY

Today we drove into Kentucky to visit Cumberland waterfalls. It was a beautiful place. I was even able to get a shot of the rainbow.

The boys were trying to catch fish in the shallow water, Kyle was able to walk more than half way across because the water was so low.

Tennessee Canjo

Kyle playing the canjo

Appalacian Fall Homecoming

We went to the Appalachian Museum today for there fall Homecoming.
This man is turning wood on his lathe powered by his tractor.

These tractors belong to my dad's long time friend, Herb.

This lady is dying yarn

with Richard next to this tractor you can see how tall they have it jacked up

This next tractor is one like ours, see what it could look like.

On stage now is Grampa Jones' wife.

This is Herb playing with one of the young very talented musicians there today.

We bought Kyle a Canjo and he has learnt to play three songs already, he's really enjoying it.

Cabin in LaFollette TN

We stayed in this cabin on our visit to Norris TN. Mom and dad rode with us, so we were able to visit while driving. It was a nice ride, we took the short way, mostly highway, so we could get out there early.

Few leaves had turned, but it was still very nice.

My Aunt Sheila and Uncle Reg joined us at the cabin.

The cabin had four bedrooms, so there was plenty of room. The view was nice, not many houses to obstruct yet. We even got to see about 20 deer in one sitting.

Autumn Jubilee, Salisbury, NC

We went to the Autumn Jubilee at the Dan Nicholas Park. There were arts, food, crafts, demonstrations, music, more food. We watched the belly dancers, cloggers and a few of the bands.




This band was Too Much Sylvia, they were musically talented, entertaining, and funny. They wore beards when they played ZZTop, Big cowboy hats when they played country and dressed like women when they did some female songs. They brought out a man in the audience that they thought looked like Hank Williams and sang to him on stage.

Hofwyl Plantation

After a long day of site seeing we stopped at the
Hofwyl Plantation http://gastateparks.org/info/hofwyl/
It was a beautiful place,with huge trees. We took a guided tour of the house and grounds. The man giving the tour was a real character. He told us about the people that lived in the house, items in the house. He talked a lot about how things were back in the day.
We went into a room with a big wardrobe..he reached into the wardrobe and brought out a civil war black powder rifle, he handed it to Cory and told him to see how it feels. He placed it back in the closet and pulled out a civil war sword and handed it to Kyle, who stood there shaking his head 'no'. He finally convinced him to hold it. Once we got in the truck, Kyle said "That man must be crazy, can you believe he let me hold that sword, it must be worth a couple thousand dollars" which is why Kyle was scared to hold it.






These are the outbuildings, servants quarters, summer kitchen, barn and other buildings.
This is a 500 year old tree, you can see how big it is with all the guys standing in front of it, there were a ton of these huge old oaks on this plantation.

Fort Frederica, St. Simons Island

We went to the town and Fort of Frederica today, I can imagine a quaint town in this area, but most of it is ruins. The live oak here are lovely. They even had citrus trees growing along what once would have been the roads of this small town. Kyle and Richard picked all they could put in there pockets, they want to make lemonade when they get back. There were also some pecan trees, but the nuts on the ground were rotten, so much be too early for them, that or I hear the pecan tree only produces every other year.

Here is a pic of that marshes at high tide.