I’ve just completed the first photo gallery from our May trip. Images in it are from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I will likely post some of those photos here, on occasion, along with images from other photo galleries of our travel.
A “drive-through” barn in the Cable’s Mill area of Cades Cove
Corn Crib – Corn was dried on the stalk and then stored here still on the cob. Corn was the major food source for both humans and livestock.
John P. Cable grist and saw mill
An overshot water wheel mill used to grind corn into corn meal and wheat into flour. The water wheel could also be used to power saw mills as well. After the saw mills, homes were almost exclusively of frame construction. As well, most owners of log homes bought lumber for siding to cover the logs of their “old-fashioned” homes.
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These are beautiful photos of those old buildings. I can almost picture the people working there. I wish I had the chance to live in a community like that — simpler times, simpler life. I like the way your theme puts an offset shadow behind the pictures. It looks like I could pick them up and pass them around.
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Oh, I misss the greenery of the East Coast. Love the photos.
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Dot – Thanks!
The life and times might have been simpler, but it was much, much harder, with a shorter life expectancy and little or no health care available. I live in the country now and I’ll take my simpler life over theirs any day.
It’s not really the that creates the shadow. I sometimes use a blogging application called blogdesk. It has a feature that allows me to add a shadow easily. In fact that feature is about the only reason that I use blogdesk.
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I actually miss the drier west. I grew up in western Nebraska and we lived in Idaho for several years before moving to Arkansas. We have a wonderful shaded yard, but we really like to go places where the trees don’t predominate or just plain block the view. We’ve got another trip to the Rockies planned for later this year.
These photos are fantastic, I love the green lush grasses. These really look like professional quality photos. Ever think about selling them?
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Debo Hobo – Thanks! I have briefly entertained the thought, but with digital photography, there are a lot of really good photographs out there and I’m not interested in the hassle of trying to market or sell them. The purpose of the photos is to add content to the web pages and complement the accompanying text.
Goodness – those photos of the buildings are awesome! If you took the last one and brought it into some photo editor and applied a filter to it, you could make it look exactly like a painting! But hell, it looks really cool just the way it is too! LOL. Debo is right about your photos. If you didn’t want to market or sell them, you might look into an online photo service that pays for photos like a stock photo place. They may not be much but it would allow others who are looking for a specific photo to use one of yours and you would get credit and maybe some pocket change for your efforts. Just a thought anyway.
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teeni – Thanks!
I’ve thought about doing something with my photos and I am — I’m sharing them online. Also by posting them regularly on my Haw Creek Out ‘n About blog and publishing them in photo galleries, I am getting more visitors to the site and more ad revenue.
Plus, since I’m starting back to work for a new short term contract, pocket change is something I don’t need, at least in the near term.
Great pics, nice to see a lovely old mill and thanks for explaining a little about them. The first pic reminded me of a place i stayed in Vietnam, oddly, and i hope these buildings are well looked after.
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Tom,
Thanks.
The buildings are part of the National Park now and, as long as they have funding, they will be taken care of.