The views all around me!

I'm amazed at the beauty that surrounds me, the views here are simply amazing.  Each day it seems I see something new, or something old in a new light.  The morning fog rising off the lake is one of my favorites.  As a friend of mine has said "you can't beat the East Tennessee mornings" and I would whole heartily agree!  Two of my other latest fascinations are the animal sightings and all of the old structures I've seen.

In the last two weeks alone we've seen an array of animals.  A group of wild turkeys (which have visited us twice so far), a pair of baby raccoons, two osprey feeding on a dead fish, just to name a few.  My favorite by far was just spotted yesterday.  Rick and I were working out in the yard, when suddenly an osprey flew by being pursued by a bald eagle.  It was truly a sight to behold, and of course I didn't have a camera close by to snap a picture.  But on the flip side I also tend to scare off the animals...why you ask?  I have a habit of wanting to talk to the animals, using that voice that Mom's use to talk to babies.  Most of the time the animals just take off running, but you should see the hilarious look I get from the cows.  So perhaps I should listen to the hubby on this matter, and remain quietly on the sidelines and view only.

I tend to be easily mesmerized by the old barns and houses in the area.  Am I the only person who looks at an old house and wonder what it looked like in it's glory days?  I try to imagine...children playing in the yard, families sitting on the porch, happy times.  But then I wonder what caused the current state of disarray?  Didn't anyone care enough to try and save these old homes?  If only those walls could talk what kind of stories would be told?

Check out this old house...