Great Smoky Mountains, Thanksgiving 2007

One falling leaf, in a sunny but chilly November afternoon in Great Smoky Mountains on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.
This is the feel of the "smoky" mountain ranges:
Thanksgiving is past the peak for foliage in the Great Smoky. Beautiful things last for only a short time. What surprised me that cold Thanksgiving day, was another undoubtedly short-lived phenomenon, frosty trees:



Two elks staged a show:

I thought I came to the south for a little warmth!