Fall is my favorite time of year — and the week before Halloween is one of my favorite weeks of the entire year.

This past weekend I visited The Great Smoky Mountains and it was a breathtaking trip. I could write about the beauty of autumn in the mountains of east Tennessee, but pictures speak louder than words.

“…ain’t no smoggy smoke on
Rocky Top, ain’t no telephone bills.”

 

The mountains and hills will burst into song
before you… Isaiah 55:12

 

Autumn cathedral of leaves

 

Laurel Falls

 

Cades Cove

 

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and
sorry I could not take them both, and be one
traveler, long I stood; and looked down one
as far as I could, to where it bent into the
undergrowth…” Robert Frost