My Life in 35mm

Christmas 1974 | My Life in 35mm #7

What better to start off with than this adorable picture?

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Great Smoky Mountains

Smoky Mountain Waterfalls & Cascades

While the wildflower pictures I was seeing drove me to GSMNP for the weekend, the rivers, cascades, and waterfalls were among my favorite memories from my 40th birthday trip there two years ago, so there was no way I’d miss those on this trip.

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Great Smoky Mountains

Smoky Mountain Wildflowers

Last weekend, I drove up to Great Smoky Mountains National Park for the weekend. I follow the park on Facebook and Twitter, and I’d been seeing lots of pictures of beautiful wildflowers, so I got the itch and decided I had to spend the weekend in the park. On Friday, I left work and headed up to Maggie Valley, then took the Blue Ridge Parkway into the park.

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My Life in 35mm

Fall 1974 | My Life in 35mm #6

Still hungover from that last Walloon Lake post, let’s start off later 1974 with a random picture of Doug:

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My Life in 35mm

Walloon Lake 1974 | My Life in 35mm #5

As I mentioned in last week’s post, my parents “got” me in July 1974, and then headed off to Walloon Lake two days later for our annual two-week summer vacation. This year, the typical three-family core was sharing the cottage: Goudies, Bakers, and Dunns.

Let’s get one thing out of the way:

I was a damn cute baby

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