Wednesday, July 01, 2009

On Top of the Smokies

When in Pigeon Forge I try to go to the top of the Smokies. I've seen the view 40 or 50 times but it is always breath taking for me. We drove through Gatlinburg which took quite a while because the traffic was very thick this time of year with people on vacation.
We finally got through Gatlinburg and into the park.

After curve after curve and a couple of tunnels we were on top of the mountain. It was rather cool today on the mountain. The valley temperature was 75° and the mountain top it was 57°.

The roderdendrun was in full bloom and beautiful. I had to take a few pics of the bloom lined streams.
In the pic with the mountain stream you can't see the flowers but this is what they look like.



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