After a dip

Ok, bird watching friends, is this a Cormorant?

Ok, it's over

Thanksgiving, that is. So it is OK to start Christmas things.

However, I'm not sure that I'm done with fall.

Ornamental

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Mixture

Late afternoon/evening autumn sun around the yard.

Hedge apple green

A contrast to the bright pinky red mum of yesterday.

I picked up these hedge apples at the golf course.  I certainly hope they don't mind.

Here is last year's hedge apple post.

PInky red

Thought I should catch these mums that a friend brought me before they are too far gone.

At the golf course

At the golf course, a photo by Rose Street Reflections on Flickr.

Sunrise in the Smokies

This time a sunrise view of Mt. Leconte from our cabin in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in October of this year.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Last bits

A volunteer crape myrtle sprout in my asparagus fern still has fall color.

Needles and cones

On the other side

There seemed to be some interest in what was on the other side of the Mt. Zion swinging bridge that I posted the other day.   There is a pasture on the other side and one day in 2010, these gals, and possibly some guys, were there.

Then, on down the road a bit, some of their friends had just been called for feeding.

As far as crossing the bridge, yes, I have crossed it and it seems to be in pretty good shape.  It seems to have been built sturdily and has had some work done in recent years.

Use my "Mt. Zion" label for more.

Soaring low

Northwest Alabama, The Shoals, Tennessee River, Wheeler Dam, Wilson Lake, Lauderdale and Lawrence Counties

Noblit Cemetery

Isn't that a pretty blue sky.  Straight out of the camera.  I did no editing.

Noblit Cemetery, Sugar Creek Road, Giles County, Tennessee

Swinging bridge

Mt. Zion, Giles County, Tennessee, U. S. A.

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with Madge Bloom at The View From Right Here

Got fish

Northwest Alabama, The Shoals, Tennessee River, Wheeler Dam, Wilson Lake, Lauderdale and Lawrence Counties

Profile

Northwest Alabama, The Shoals, Tennessee River, Wheeler Dam, Wilson Lake, Lauderdale and Lawrence Counties

Look down

Look up

Smoky Mountain sunset

We spent a few days in the Great Smoky Mountains a couple of weeks ago.  The fall color was a little late this year so I didn't get many(any) of those great photos I was hoping for.  

But, this view from our cabin near Gatlinburg was pretty good.  The orange you see on the mountains was from the sunset rather than fall color in the trees.

Pretty anyway, huh?

See through

Remnants of cotton in one of the trailers used during cotton picking.

Use my label "cotton" for more cotton pickin'.

Little River Canyon

Little River Canyon, National Preserve, Northeast Alabama

The welcome center is new, large, and impressive.

Visit Alabama

Clashin'

What's wrong with this picture?

Anyone else out there who wishes we could let the fall color have its glory without rushing the Christmas decor?  Fake plastic green and bright red just ruin the whole thing for me.

Geez.  Wait until Thanksgiving is here and gone.

Not picking on you, Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee

It's everywhere.

A different fall color

The view from my house early one morning last week.  They finished picking the fields here late the day before and the equipment stayed here overnight.

Use my label "cotton" for more cotton pickin'.

Cotton Express

Lots of big teeth.

Use my label "cotton" for more cotton pickin'.

Contraption

Another guessing game.

My, what big teeth you have

Blue and yellow

Me and my gal