Crossville Tennessee Adventure Part 1 of 2

My trip to Crossville, TN this past Thursday was a success. With the help of my good friend Matt we set out on an adventure to see some cool places in Crossville. The trip actually started Wednesday night when I drove up to Matt's House to spend the night. I enjoyed great food prepared by Matt's mom (Thanks Again) and had a great time hanging out and playing Modern Warfare 3. The plan for the next morning was to get up early (4:30 a.m. to be exact) and drive to Spring City Mountain and take some sunrise pics and boy was I not disappointed. We pulled up to the location about 20 mins early. In the distance you could see the nuclear cooling tower at Watts Bar Dam. A fog was laying over the valley below and far in the distance straight ahead you could see, what I believe to be the, start of the Smokey Mountains. It was a beautiful site and here is some of the pics from the morning.

The first shot is one that Matt took of me standing looking over the valley at the sunrise.

The second pic is of the sunrise soon afterward we had arrived. You can see in the background where the suns rays are just coming over what looks to be fog but actually that is the Smokey Mountains. We didn't realize it was a distance mountain until the sun was fully up and burned of some of the fog.

This is a shot of the Watts Bar cooling tower. I had to use my 80-300mm lens to capture this pic because it was a great distance away.

This is after the sun was almost fully risen and let me just say the picture does not do it justice to how awesome it was!

After we left Spring City Mountain we traveled right down the road to a small church that Matt's dad had told him about. The church is nestled in among cattle fields and crop lands.  The name of the church is Grassy Cove United Methodist Church established in 1803 and was one of the first churches in the Cumberland Plateau region. The land was given by revolutionary war hero John Ford, Sr from Virginia and original settler of the Grassy Cove Community.

Here is a link if you would like to know more about Grassy Cove http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassy_Cove

This is by far the oldest church that I have had the pleasure of seeing and here is some shots of the church.

This is on the side of the church

This is a view looking away from the church. Just thought I would show how beautiful the scenery around the church is.

Well that finishes up part uno of my trip to Crossville, TN. I hope you enjoyed the pictures and stories of these two places that I visited. Feel free to comment and be sure to check back for part 2 of my trip that will be posted Monday night. Thanks for visiting