In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a valley called Cades Cove. In the 19th century this was an active farming community inhabited by sturdy people who built their cabins and worked their land for many years. Surrounded by mountains, it was isolated from much of the outside world. Today tourists are frequent visitors to the valley where they can drive a one way loop road and walk into the past as they visit the remaining houses, barns and churches. This palette knife painting is based on one of those small wooden churches in the valley.
