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Beautiful Colors 

8/1/2013

 
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Chris and I were talking about the amount of rainfall we have had this season and we think that the rain has provided us with the best year of monks hood we have ever seen. The monks hood flowers are the purple flowers in the picture above. They are growing like crazy, of course, everything is growing like crazy. Everyone is posting about mowing their lawns, Chris has not been able to play with his new weed eater as much as he would like to. It has been way to wet. I thought I would tally up the rainfall for the months of Jan. - July. It is a rough tally but the number I came up with is a little over 68" of rainfall. That is not including snowfall. We received over 30" of rain in June and July alone. We did get rain yesterday and it is currently raining now. The high yesterday was 68º with a low of 50º.
Donna
8/1/2013 02:42:14 am

The flowers are just beautiful. I was wondering though, are all the flowers that are seen around the lodge wild or do you plant some of them yourselves? I would love for my garden to look like that!

Rebecca
8/1/2013 03:06:58 am

Thunderstorm down below in Gatlinburg. Soon we will need an Ark!

Missy
8/1/2013 03:43:56 am

Beautiful sunny days in October 2013. Beautiful sunny days in October 2013. Just putting it out there. :)

noeman
8/1/2013 05:45:55 am

was trying to figure out what you were doing!

Kim
8/1/2013 08:41:04 am

I am heading to GSMNP in 9 days, and I sure hope the rain is light to non-existent. However, either way, I look forward to enjoying the mountains!
Thanks for the posts and this picture gives me hope of beautiful days there.

Debi
8/1/2013 11:56:45 am

Thanks for the beautiful flowers Allyson. Greatly needed for my Willow dog that went to Heaven today.

Tanya
8/2/2013 12:27:35 am

Debi, so sorry about your Willow. I love all fur babies, especially dogs. They really are part of your family!!

Debi
8/2/2013 01:27:58 am

Thank you Tanya. :)

Connie
8/2/2013 02:15:03 am

Debi,
I know how you feel after losing a dear pet dog. They are like members of the family. I'm sure you have probably read or heard of it, but just in case. there is a beautiful poem called The Rainbow Bridge. Deals with the loss of a pet. Too long to print here. You can find it on the internet. Just Google "The Rainbow Bridge" It's very uplifting.

Debi
8/2/2013 02:37:01 am

Thank you Connie. I have read that poem before. I just love this blog. Just a bunch of fellow hikers that have such caring hearts. Thank you so much.

Mary F
8/1/2013 02:06:13 pm

The wildflowers of the GSM are something to write home about. Love, love, love the pics!

norman in ga.
8/2/2013 01:32:06 am

amen!!

Leon
8/2/2013 01:37:07 am

If Chris wants to play with a weed eater, his or mine, have him give me a call. :-) We received over 20" of rain down in East Central Alabama.

mika
8/2/2013 01:08:40 pm

I want to be there so bad!!!


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