A golden flame azeala provides a cheerful color of spring in the forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
A backroad resplendent in vibrant spring green just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Ashe County, North Carolina.
Laurel Creek as viewed from the creek trail near Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest. The Laurel Creek Trail follows the old railbed from the Pea Vine Railroad that ran from Damascus, Virginia to Mountain City, Tennessee. That narrow gauge railroad ran from 1905 to 1919. The 3 mile trail runs from the Virginia / Tennesse state lines to the town of Laurel Bloomery.
