View From The Front Porch-Stan Hitchcock-January 8, 2012

Sun coming up over the Sycamores by the creek showing the promise of a beautiful day in Middle Tennessee. Just reminds me why it is so nice living in this part of the world during the Winter time. January with temps to get up near 60 today and approaching 70 by the end of the week.


The Long Hunters, who first came here in the 1780's, from the Virginia colonies, and who went back there and brought their families back to pioneer this unknown wilderness because they saw beyond the forests and canebrakes, and knew this was a special land.

Big Foot Spencer, who spent a winter here after his fellow hunters had gone back to Virginia, living in a hollow Sycamore Tree just a few miles from our old farm house, and later planting the first crop of cultivated corn near the salt lick to be called Bledsoe's Lick, was sure it was special.

Living in the Cumberland watershed of Tennessee, where the air is fresh, the water sweet and the folks all good...good morning to y'all and have a good one with us.   -Stan