Fall in the Smokies

This overlook offers a view of high and low elevations. On this fall day, there was 32 feet of snow on top of Mt. LeConte and the season was changing the color of the leaves on the trees below. This was taken/processed in HDR.

A Spring Snow in the Smokies

This April morning was rainy at our little motel in Gatlinburg, TN. It was raining so hard that we almost made plans to be indoors all day. We stopped for breakfast at our favorite sweet potato pancake house and decided to take a drive to an area that we had not been to before. As we were gaining altitude the rain turned to snow by the time we got to the trail marker we were surrounded by these lovely thick, wet flakes. Our entire hike was like being in a magical snowglobe.

Eastern Hemlock's slow death

The hemlocks in Smoky Mountain National Park don't have much of a chance. They have been dying off for several years now despite efforts by the Park's policy of not allowing transported firewood. These tree's sit on top of Clingman's Dome.