TENNESSEE - TRIPLET

The lovely Smoky Mountain National Park is wildly popular all year around and I had to join a group of curious parkgoers to see this unusual sight. A mother Black Bear and her playful triplets surrounded by azalea blooms calmly watching the watchers! The trees were filled with these beautiful and sociable Cedar Waxwings known for branch-sitting where they pass fruit back and forth, beak to beak.