Happy belated Thanksgiving! I certainly hope you all had a wonderful time with friends and family this long weekend. Holly and I have just returned from a month in Asia and have lots of stories and photos to share, but first, I wanted to get in the Holiday spirit with some Fall images.

Holly and I left at what would have typically been the end of the color season here in East Tennessee, but because of the drought we’ve been experiencing and some warmer-than-normal weather, everything was SUPER late this year. However, I did manage to find some pockets of nice color before we left, and low streams meant it was easy to walk out into the stream for a different view than I typically get (subsequently, my friend Steve always walks out into the streams, regardless of water level, and gets some amazing images, so I used that for some motivation).

–Dan Thompson

Metcalf Bottoms