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A special thank you to the City of Pigeon Forge and their Office of Special Events' Butch Helton and Brandon Barnes and the rest of the staff, for their Smoky Mountain Winter Experience.
The event was held over the past three days at The Ramsey Hotel and Convention Center and was very similar to the original January based Wilderness Wildlife Week. It was a gathering of nature and outdoor enthusiasts, plus artists, storytellers, natural historians and musicians like Ruth Barber and Keith Watson of Boogertown Gap Old-Time String Band (click: Boogertown) and hammer dulcimer artist Tim Simek (click: Simek).
And a special thank you to those who attended one of my four talks about birds.
It was especially good to revisit the topic of John James Audubon and his publishing tour de force: The Birds of America that included portraits of the 435 known species at the time including the now extinct Carolina parakeet (to the left).
It was a masterwork of achievement!
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| Lynne McCoy |
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| Tim Simek |
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| Bee house maker Stephen |
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| Landscape by artist (and cousin) Louise Bales |
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| Boogertown Gap |
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| Woodcarver Don Taylor |
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| Stephen Lyn with stoic partner: gray phase |
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