In the middle of October, we went up to our favorite cabin in Pigeon Forge. As usual, it was gorgeous up there, and the weather was great! On the trip, we stopped at The Dillard House on the way there for a fabulous breakfast and one day we drove over to Cades Cove for the wilderness drive. We were really hoping to see a bear or two, but no such luck.
We did have a little buddy at our cabin, though...a raccoon! He was eating the corn kernels out of the front porch decorations and he didn't seem the least bit scared of us. Dad finally had to use a metal shovel from the garbage bin to bang on the porch and scare him off so we could get in the house that night.
On the wilderness drive in Cades Cove, we stopped at a primitive Baptist Church and it had a really old graveyard behind it. The dates went back to the 1700s! I always find old graveyards really interesting...just imagining the lives of these people and sometimes the headstones will have little tidbits. One of the headstones said that the man had been in the NC militia during the Revolutionary War....another said that the man had been murdered by a rebel. And then there were really sad graves of young children...that hits me a lot harder now that I have my own child. I can't imagine how hard it would have been to live in a time where a common illness could kill you or your child so easily.
We also got to see and tour old log cabins from families that lived in those mountains in the 17 and 1800's. You can see part of one of these cabins in the photo of Hadley in the tree.
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