Cades Cove

On Tuesday we went to Cades Cove, a small valley within the Great Smokey Mountain National Park.  This area was first settled in 1818 by the John Oliver family.  By the time of the Civil War rolled around there were about 685 people here among about 120 families.  The settlers established the Primitive Baptist Church … Read more

Panoramic Photography

The other day I discovered a new bug… er’ I mean feature on my phone… The ability to do panoramic photography… but the weather stunk so I had to wait till today to try it out…  I went to the Old Market section of Omaha, down by the riverfront to check out the flooding, and … Read more

A pain in the butt

The pictures from our trip have been stuck on the laptop for a while.  For some reason my large removable drive doesn’t connect properly to the laptop so I had to work hard to get the pictures into our archive and onto a machine we can use to create a DVD. I’m using hard drive … Read more