Here are some fair-to-middlun' quality pics from a recent turkey hunting excursion with my best friend and his daughter (seen here acting as my turkey decoy deployment specialist ;)) in my beloved home state. It was the last day of the 2015 TN spring turkey season and also the only day I was able to hunt this year on account of having had back surgery on April 3rd—which screwed me out of getting to make it into the woods for practically the entire season. The three of us hoofed it up to the top of Signal Knob after an unsuccessful early morning hunt but were greeted with an amazing panoramic view at the summit...which was accompanied by a lot of sucking wind. Our previous feelings of disappointment and frustration were all but ameliorated upon our first glance of the stunning vista which lay before us that more than made up for nobody getting a chance at a turkey.
It may not be discernible in these pics but the visibility had to have been at least 50 miles across the West Highland Rim of Tennessee. l tell ya I haven't seen a view like that for some time.
The hill or "knob" (as they say in these parts) that we were on here in these photos was—I believe—used by the Union Army during the Civil War as an intelligence/signaling station because of its eminence over most of the surrounding countryside. From what I understand the station here on Signal Knob served as a relay station (using some kind of super bright ass lanterns to send messages) between the Union forces in the Franklin, TN area and their forces in the Murfreesboro area.
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