Newfound Gap - Skywatch Friday November 21

These photographs were taken on October 22, 2008 at Newfound Gap in the

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

At the same location as my Sky Watch photos last week, just an hour later.

Can still see why they are called the GSMNP the blue ridge mountains.

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Newfound Gap at Sunrise - Skywatch Friday November 14

All four of these photographs were taken at Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in southeast USA. They were taken between 6:37AM and 6:50AM on October 22, 2008.

You can see where the park got the nicknames of the Smokies and the Blue Ridges.

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Fall in the Smoky Mountains National Park

These were also taken this past Monday in the GSMNP. The first one is also at Newfound Gap, but the others are not.

The Smokies tend to turn blue in a lot of the photographs. Guess that is how they got the nickname of the blue ridges.

One of several tunnels, it amazed me how many honked their horns as they came through the tunnels. The traffic was heavy, so it took me a while to get this photograph without a vehicle in it. One of the trees looks like a redbud in bloom in the spring, but it was this week, that is just the way the leaves look.

Sunrise at Newfound Gap in GSMNP

These photographs were taken this past Monday morning at Newfound Gap in the Smokey Mountain National Park.

The colors are beautiful, but I don't think they are at their peak yet.

Cades Cove Landscapes

Just a very slight difference between the 1st and 2nd photo.

For the ones of you that have never been to GSMNP or Cades Cove I hope I have given you enough in these 3 posts of the landscape this week to make you want to visit.

Fence row in Cades Cove

I was disappointed the fields looked so messy, needed to be mowed. But the photos don't look so bad.I kinda like the 2nd one.

Early Morning in Cades Cove

Cades Cove in the morning. These are for those of you that have never been to Cades Cove. It is awesome!