Carter Shields cabin and deer at Cades Cove

As usual I stopped at the Carter Shields cabin. As we pulled in I told Jimmy to keep an eye for the deer.

I had photographed a buck and doe here on December 2, 2008.

I just wandered around and photographed various snow covered things.

Came back to the cabin, for one last photo, and then started to get back in the vehicle when Jimmy showed me the buck.

He was crossing at the exact spot that I had photographed him before.

Without any doubt it is the same buck, because his antlers still don't look real good. This time he had 2 doe with him. One crossed the road before him, and one after him.

Click here and here to see the 2 earlier post of this buck. It was exciting to see the same buck at the same exact spot. You can bet I will always keep a better eye for deer in this area on future visits.

Cades Cove cabin in the GSMNP

These photographs are of the last cabin before you leave Cades Cove. I can never remember the name of this cabin and I cannot find my Cades Cove booklet right now. I was going to post these tomorrow, but am posting early for Darla.

I stopped to get these photographs because usually by the time I get to this cabin the light is so bright the photos aren't right. With the dreary day the light was still not beaming down even though it was around 2PM when I took these.

I took the first photograph and a deer caught my eye. Started photographing her, and then her buck came out from behind me. I posted those photographs last week, he was the buck with the antlers in bad shape. They were in the woods to the left. I took the splitrail fence photo as I came back out of the woods.

It was hard for me to pick my favorite but I think it is the one above.

It looks like a painting to me.

I can almost see the smoke coming out of the chimney in these photographs. Jen, this is the same cabin you have in a card, yours has more snow. I did try to research this before posting, but all I can find are the cabin rentals around the Smoky Mountains. Next time I go I will have to get me a new booklet. I will then update this post with the name of the cabin.

UPDATE: This is the Carter Shields home place in Cades Cove.

Gregg Cable House at Cades Cove - wintertime

These photographs are of the Gregg Cable homeplace at Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, taken last week.

I posted photos taken during the fall, you can view here.

Does not look quite as inviting as it did during the fall. Thoughts of living here, all isolated during a heavy snow does not sound good to me at all.

Gregg Cable House at Cades Cove

Not sure what happened to this post. They started out all centered. The more I learn about this new computer, the more I don't know. Hope this turns out ok, but we never know until it actually post.

I was standing in the same place for all 4 photographs, I just kept zooming in more. Wouldn't you love to live in a place like this. Other than the Copperheads, of course. This is where the Copperheads were that I posted photos of before.

UPDATE TO Caldwell Place in GSMNP

I have added a story to the end of the post for the Caldwell Place at Cataloochee Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Please revisit it for the new story. A very short version of the same story was in one of my comments, and blogger buddy, Darla, suggested I go back and add it to my post. Hope you enjoy.

Woody Place Cataloochee Cove - GSMNP

This sign should be at each house, but this was the only one we saw in the cove.About half way up that mile LONG hike I realized I only had my telephoto lens. When we got out of the vehicle we thought we were going to be photographing the elk in the distance. So with just the little clearing around the house, I could not get far enough away to get a full photograph of the house.
Could see straight thru the house ok.
Notice the hand made lattice. The wood is a lot thicker than what we see now days., and it is made one stick at a time.

The spring house. And then back down the mile hike to see if the elk were roaming in the fields yet.

Caldwell Place in Cataloochee Cove - GSMNP

Remember this house was built in 1903.
Look at this woodwork.

They not only had the arch, but look at the design going 3 different directions on the same wall.

And the staircase. This house was awesome. Would love to live in today, just not down that 10 miles of mountain side to get to it.

The view from the front porch, nice stream between the house and the barn.

Notice the cross on the barn.

A blogger buddy, Darla, suggested I update this post and tell this story. See the comments on the Woody Place post. This house brought back memories for me. When I was about 10 years old the house down the road past my Granny and Papa's house (in Walton County, Georgia)was very similiar to this house. One Saturday evening Sheriff Doc Sorrells (relative of mine) was called to the house because the man of the house was intoxicated and causing problems. When the sheriff knocked on the front door the man shot him from the back of the house. The man was in the back right room. The shot went through 6 to 8 walls and killed the sheriff standing at the front door. When nobody lived in the house anymore we went in the house to investigate it. CSI would have used beams to show the bullets path. We were not that sophisticated, we stuck our fingers in the holes in all the walls. The holes were at angles in the walls, straight to the front door.

After I was grown I visited the Police Memorial in Washington, DC and found his name on the wall and made a rub of his name. It was a very emotional visit, due to knowing several police officers listed on the wall.

Additional Cabin at Palmer's Place - GSMNP

This cabin is across the road from the Palmer House. It was built in 1924 to house the tourist. They already had 2 bunkhouses for tourist. They charged 50 cents a day to stay in one the bunkhouses or this cabin. An additional 50 cents for meals. And an addditional 50 cents to fish in the ponds.
Notice the brick on the top of the chimney turned on their side to keep the water out.

Palmer House at Cataloochee Cove - GSMNP

The Palmer House is the first home place you come to in Cataloochee Cove. The white portion was added on the house in 1924. Notice the wallpaper in the front left room.
Then newspaper as wallpaper upstairs. We looked for a date, but couldn't find a year.

These steps are between the 2 log cabins that were joined in by one roof. The porch between them goes all the way through the house.

This is the back of the house.

Not sure what this log structure is, unless it is one of the bunk houses they built for the tourist in the early 1920's. Not much larger than a smokehouse, but it does not have a floor, and most smokehouses have a floor.

The white structure is the spring house. Nice lattice door.

The view of the house and springhouse from the barn.
The barn from the house.

That is my husband on the upper level.

I have never seen a ramp like this going to the upper level of a barn. Makes it a lot easier than lifting, or going up ladders.

Cable Mill area in Cades Cove

The Cable Mill area is the largest home place in Cades Cove. The corn meal is here, which I showed with the Copperheads photos, and am not showing with this post.I have always liked this barn, it is real hard to capture a photograph of it without people. (This area is the most crowded on the loop road in Cades Cove due to the restroom facilities, and there is quite a bit here to see.)
They still demonstrate the Sorghum mill here in the fall, but I have never been there when they were using it.

Just another structure in the area.

These are the last of the Labor Day trip to Cades Cove. I think this is a record for me. I have gone through all the photos, they are posted and filed away for later. Now I need to start going back to June's St Pete trip (going again in October) and the July 4th Perry's Water Lilies trip. I just decided to tackle Cades Cove immediately. Hope everybody has enjoyed this trip through this wonderful cove, which is a very small portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Maybe it will inspire a trip in this direction. Remember the Smokeys (as us locals call it) is the only national park with no entrance fee, and it is the most visited park.