{"id":389,"date":"2011-11-03T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2011-11-04T21:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T01:51:26","slug":"smokies-fall-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Smokies &#8211; Fall, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>click the Audio <\/em><em>below and adjust your sound if necessary<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL21hcmtzaXNjby5jb20vbXAzLzA0IC0gVGVubmVzc2VlIFdhbHR6IChJbnN0cnVtZW50YWwpLm1wMw\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Autumn always tugs at me to dedicate time shooting the fall colors, preferably somewhere in the mountains.\u00a0 My best bud Carl and I have been doing this for the past 8 years.\u00a0 This year Carl, Brent, and I planned a trip to the Smokies.\u00a0 It has been years since I&#8217;ve visited, in spite of the fact it is so close to home, relatively speaking.<\/p>\n<p>We drove from Atlanta, and the scenery through the north GA mountains and into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park was outstanding.\u00a0 We arrived a little beyond color peak.\u00a0 Some areas, particularly in the highest elevations, were already barren.\u00a0 But by and large, the color was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>One of our first visits was to Cades Cove.\u00a0 We visited on Friday, which was smarter than we realized.\u00a0 We returned on Saturday, and cars were bumper to bumper and often standing at a dead standstill.\u00a0 There were more leaf peepers than leaves!\u00a0 But our first visit on Friday was very well paced and leisurely.<\/p>\n<p>The first stop was the John Oliver cabin.\u00a0 The Olivers bought land in the Cove in 1826 and this cabin site remained in the family until the Park was established. The house is typical of many found on the eastern frontier in the mid-1850s, and reflects the skills and techniques brought into the mountains by descendants of British and European immigrants.\u00a0 The round logs were scored first along their length with a felling axe, then hewn with a broad axe. The notched corners need no pegs or nails, as gravity locks them together. Chinks (open spaces between the logs) were filled with mud to seal out wind and rain. The stone chimney was laid in mud mortar. Windows and doors are typically small, to conserve heat, and maintain the strength of the building. Split wooden shingles, the most common material used here, cover the roof.\u00a0 The structure was quite unbelievable given it&#8217;s time period and for being almost 200 years old.\u00a0 It took a year and a half to build.<\/p>\n<p>The split rail fence in the foreground is near and dear to my heart.\u00a0 My dad built one of these around our home property in Tennessee when I was a small boy.\u00a0 I remember fondly driving out to the countryside to find and pickup the rails, then driving them home and helping put them into place.\u00a0 The fence created an icon of sorts that represented our home in the small town where I grew up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_390\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-390\" title=\"GSMNP_001-Edit\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_001-Edit-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_001-Edit-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_001-Edit-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_001-Edit.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Oliver Home - Cades Cove<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_394\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-394\" title=\"GSMNP_269\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_269-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_269-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_269-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GSMNP_269.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brent, Mark, and Carl<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click the Audio below and adjust your sound if necessary [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Autumn always tugs at me to dedicate time shooting the fall colors, preferably somewhere in the mountains.\u00a0 My best bud Carl and I have been doing this for the past 8 years.\u00a0 This year Carl, Brent, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}