05/10/2026
One of our favorite parts of spring in the Smokies is seeing the mama bears with their cubs. 🐻🤍
What’s even more special is that black bears have been known to occasionally take in orphaned cubs and raise them as their own — protecting them, nurturing them, and loving them no differently than the cubs they gave birth to.
There’s something deeply beautiful about that… and something very human in it too.
Today we celebrate all the moms — including the women who stepped in, opened their hearts, and raised children that were not biologically their own, yet loved them fiercely without ever missing a beat.
Happy Mother’s Day from Little Pine Lodge & RidgeHaus 🌲🖤