They are amazing and I love having them at my front door.
Do you know why they "smoke"?
Great photo!
Ninety years ago (give or take), it could have been the smoke from the stills.
black mamba wrote:
Mystery solved.
Beautiful photo! I love the Smokey Mountains.
Beautiful image Tom. Used to do a lot of camping and backpacking in the Smokies years ago.
Don
Triple G wrote:
They are amazing and I love having them at my front door.
Do you know why they "smoke"?
Great photo!
A combination of humidity haze and off gassing from the deep layers of old leaves etc. decaying on the ground = Mother Nature's Own Smog.
Serene autumn foliage of the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia & West Virginia at it's best...
Stellar multidimensional effect... Epic illusion of three demonstrations in a two dimensional rendering....
Warm dominate Reds in foreground, recessive forest Conifer Green in mid-ground and the distal haze background.
Many acres of this pristine wilderness was lost to bituminous coal extraction i.e. Strip Mined and then later reclaimed.
With the endless excessive thirst for "Cheap Energy" petroleum wells replaced the rape of the Smoky Mountains...
Now it's the The Permian Basin's oil-and-gas-producing of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.fueling the exploitation of the South West wilderness... much of which is arid and too hostile an environment for human habitation...
Yet still wishing I could go back to those beautiful Smoky Mountains
Paradise Muhlenberg Tennessee (made famous by John Prine)
And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away… © Sturgill Simpson
Love the photo. The smokies is one of my favorite vacation places.
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