A road less traveled

[limr8 6]

Awesome Lenni. You have the soul of a great photog. later Ed

Oh Ed, you just made my day

 

[Dagwood56]

Beautiful! It looks so peaceful.

 

[pjaye]

Beautiful. So calm and peaceful.

 

[Warhorse]

Beautiful...now go get a rake and clean it up!

 

[sm4him]

Agreed, this is a beautiful scene, well captured.

I would just LOVE to go over to the Smokies and get some nice fall pictures of my mountains, but I simply cannot abide the tourists! And the problem here, with the GSMNP being, by far, the most visited National Park in the states, the crowds are RIDICULOUS from the time the leaves even begin to hint at changing until well after they are on the ground. Weekends are certainly the worst, but there is NO *good* day, in terms of not having a lot of people around, in October. There ARE a lot of trails that the tourists don't use (you know, anything marked "Moderate" or above that is more than 1/2 mile long and doesn't lead to a waterfall at the end…), but to get TO those, you still have to drive in All. That. Traffic. And I just don't DO the tourist traffic. I can get into part of the Smokies going a back way, but it's really long, and you still end up having to deal with about 5 miles of the tourist traffic.

EDIT: But, those are all excuses. Because there ARE plenty of places, practically in my backyard, where I probably COULD get those sort of shots. I need to start scouting locations...

 

[limr8 6]

Thanks, ladies (and Warhorse!)

Sharon: I agree about the traffic. It can get really bad here, but the thing that saves me from it is that most of it is from people coming up from NYC in their rented cars (that they don't know how to drive) and they don't really do that during the week. Also, there isn't just one place to go, like everyone going to GSMNP where you are. There are a lot of places to go and see the foliage, so at least the crowds are more dispersed.

But Minnewaska will be mobbed on the weekends from now until when the leaves fall, so I will NOT be returning unless it's a weekday!

 

[annamaria]

Ah lovely shot. So inviting and peaceful.

 

[limr8 6]

Thank you

 

[Cat & Mike]

Love everything about this one. The dark foreground with the lane lending way into the lightened background. Just beautiful.

btw. Looks just like home.

 

[limr8 6]

Love everything about this one. The dark foreground with the lane lending way into the lightened background. Just beautiful.

btw. Looks just like home.

Thank you!
It's not too far away from Ontario. At least not on a map This is in upstate New York.