Today, we headed to the mountains for my birthday outing--we missed our turn-off and ended up at the entrance to Cades Cove. We took the first trail head and went for a cool hike!
On the way back close to the parking lot---we encountered TWO bears. We keep our distance--thus the blurryish pictures. Bears are big! These noticed us, but kept on their merry way without any help from us. Michael did grab my whistle out of the backpack.
Tera took lots of cool mushroom pictures!
The rhododendron was in bloom...
