🐻🌿"Join the Fun!”🐻🌿

 

🐻🌿"Join the Fun!”🐻🌿

Judy Royal Glenn Photography 

*A black bear cub rides his mom’s back in Cades Cove, Tennessee. 

With all the talk about snow and cold weather, I thought everyone would like to look back on a photograph from a nice spring day on May 23, 2023.

I never know what is just around the corner to photograph, and that’s one of the reasons I love photography.

This day proved exciting as I found a black bear cub climbing on his mom‘s back, and his brother wanted to join him.

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Location: Cades Cove, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

🦌❄️“On the Move”🦌❄️

“Looking Back to 2024” —  🦌❄️“On the Move”🦌❄️

Photo taken January 8, 2021

A buck is on the move during the rut in light snow. 

Each year, I stop to reflect on the past year. Many wonderful events took place, and there were bumps in the road.

April started with a bang as we saw Arkansas's total Solar eclipse of the sun. It was a road trip to remember, as we left early from South Carolina, lost our key at a pitstop, got a key re-keyed, and ended up in Arkansas about 1 o’clock in the morning. It was all worth it.

My daughter moved to Tennessee in May. She visited and saw that Tennessee is such a magical place, so she decided to move here.

In May, I had lithotripsy surgery to remove my kidney stones. Removing two stones was partially successful, but one is still hanging in there.

The Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference is always a highlight of the year as I continue to work on the book the Lord laid on my heart to write about my mom‘s death and other deaths.

Because of the antibiotics I was given for my surgery, I got colitis and C-diff and ended up in the emergency room. If you don’t know what C-diff is, look it up. It is not fun.

June rounded the corner, and I got Covid.

My sweet son got married in October. We plan to visit him and his sweet wife this spring.

We finally signed our construction loan! It’s been the longest four years of wanting to build our forever dream home.

I got the flu to end the year and start the new year. Thankfully, it was a milder case, probably due to my flu shot.

Here’s to a New Year!

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Location: Cades Cove, Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

😇 🌟My New Year’s Wish” 😇 🌟

😇 🌟“My New Year’s Wish” 😇 🌟

 

Here are my favorite nine photos from 2024. It was a fantastic year! I’ll share more about it later when I post my annual reflection. I hope you enjoy your New Year’s Eve festivities.

 

My wish for you in the New Year is simple yet profound: I hope you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. He loves you so much that He sent His only Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for our sins. This act had a tremendous purpose: to ensure that we have a place with Him in Heaven if we trust in and believe in His Son as our personal Lord and Savior. Trusting Him for our salvation is as easy as ABC.

 

A — Admit that you are a sinner. (Romans 3:23)   

B — Believe that Jesus, God’s only son, was born and died on the cross for your sins. (Acts 16:31)

C — Confess and repent of your sins and ask Him to be the Lord of your life. (1 John 1:9) 

 

Much love, Judy!

🦊🐻🐬"Best of Nine"🐻🦊🐬

🦊🐻🐬"Best of Nine"🐻🦊🐬

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

My best of nine photos I posted this year showcase the beauty and splendor of Cades Cove, two pictures of a fox, and one mamma dolphin and her baby breaching in St. Lucia. What a year of photography:)

My photos take me back to where I was when I photographed them. The memories will live on forever through my photography.

I wanted to wish all my followers a Merry Christmas and a wonderful and blessed New Year! THANK YOU for taking the time to like and comment on my work!! 

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~ Judy

🦌❄️"The Buck and BJ Stops Here.”🦌❄️

🦌❄️"Buck and BJ Stops Here.”🦌❄️

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

Thank you so much for all the kind comments about my mishap in Cades Cove. I pulled off hurriedly in BJ, my SUV, and my front tire went along the culvert and ended in a grassy embankment, putting my car in a predicament. 

Several people stopped to help and got myself and my car out without damage with a few tugs from The General’s wrench. I have a friend whose son hit a culvert, and it flipped his truck and killed him. So, a simple mishap can be deadly.

     One rescuer asked, “Have you photographed the book yet?”

     “No.” 

     “Well, you need to go photograph it. That's a good story.”

Thanks again for your sweet comments:)

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Location: Cades Cove, Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

😇🙏🏻“Blessed”😇🙏🏻

😇🙏🏻“Blessed”😇🙏🏻

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

Yesterday, I was the first to enter my second home, Cades Cove. It was an amazing day, minus one hiccup. The snow was beautiful, and it was a blessing to see it snow until noon. 

I went over a culvert in my car, leaving my back left tire about two feet off the ground. The photo shows after the first time my car was pulled so the tire wasn’t as high.

Photo by Robin Greenlee

I pulled over quickly because I saw a buck and wanted to photograph it. I didn’t know it was a culvert as it was not clearly visible. My tire went off into the bank and left me hanging. The metal underside of my car was stuck on the culvert.

Thankfully, I had met a nice young man named John earlier before I entered the Cove. He assisted me in getting several massive logs under my tire beside the culvert so that my tire would have something to drive on when we backed out. Thankfully, two other sweet gentlemen, Jason and Tom, stopped and helped. After we stacked all the logs, they had plastic runners to put under the tire so that it could roll on.

I put it in reverse and backed a reasonable distance, and then my car stopped because I forgot I had my emergency break on. We fixed all the logs and tried again with his wench on The General—his jeep.

Before I got in the car to back it up, I asked everyone to pray, and I asked the Lord to have his angels lift my car and not damage it. I asked for protection, and my car could’ve easily flipped over if things had gone wrong. Thank you, Lord, for your provisions, blessing me, and keeping me safe in my car. 

A few friends I saw that morning circled back around and photographed the shenanigans I got myself into.

It’s not the buck’s fault. It’s mine. His beautiful photo will come next week. 

The second pull on the wench freed my car, and my car did not appear damaged. We all took a group photo, and I hugged and thanked them for stopping to help. They are my good Samaritans.

     One asked, “Have you photographed the buck yet?”

     “No.”

     “Well, you need to go photograph it. That’s a good story.”

Luckily, the buck awaited me as he slept on the snowing grass. I got some good shots. I told the guys to go to my website and pick any photo they liked, and I would ship it to them.

I will be more cautious and not be too hurried to pull off. I need to get one of those cars with cameras on all sides, as I couldn’t see how close I was to the culvert on the right side. God is good. All the time is good.

As I did my devotion for the night, I laughed out-loud as I saw the verse: Stand still and watch the Lord rescue you today... Exodus 14:13 

Word to the wise: Don’t be in a hurry to pull off, and definitely use the pull-offs.

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Location: Cades Cove, Tennessee

🐻🐾"Footprints in the Sand"🐻🐾

🐻🐾"Footprints in the Sand"🐻🐾

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

*A bear and bobcat print can be seen in the sand in Cades Cove, Tennessee. 

I love looking for animal tracks when I’m in the Cove. My favorite two prints to find are the bear and the bobcat. I do extensive hiking, and one day, when it snowed, I saw a bobcat print in the snow on a log across a stream.

While walking down a dry creek bed, I recently found a bear paw print and a bobcat print. I put my hand next to it for scale. I was very excited!

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Cades Cove, Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

🦊🌱“The Fox and the Tomato Plant"🦊🌱

🦊🌱“The Fox and the Tomato Plant"🦊🌱

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

I love the fall, but I miss many things about the spring, including this fox kit. The little ones are so much fun to watch as they wrestle and play. 

This kit enjoyed a few moments of solace without his siblings while standing near a tomato plant, enjoying the peace and quiet. 

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🌧️💦"Rain or Shine"🌧️💦

🌧️💦“Rain or Shine”🌧️💦

 

*A momma bear stands upright to search for danger. -  5/8/23

 

I enjoyed watching this sow and her cubs trouncing through the blackberry bushes looking for food. A boar was bothering her, and she was vigilant to keep her cubs safe. 

 

She stood upright several times, this time for two minutes. Not long after, one of her cubs got a free piggyback ride.

 

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Location: Cades Cove, Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

 

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