Are you allowed to have a favorite tree?  If so… this is mine.  Where Hyatt Lane runs in to the loop road in Cades Cove; just out from the Dan Lawson place, sits this tree.  All you have to mention to my photography friends is “the tree”, and we all know exactly which tree you’re talking about.  If you’ve been following along with my photography blog, you may remember seeing this tree before (here’s the first photo I posted of it), and true be told… I have countless pictures of it.  I love the symmetry of it, I love the aloneness of it; I just love it. 🙂

On this particular morning the fog was extremely heavy (for whatever reason this spot always has a good chance for fog); so much so you couldn’t see the tree from the road just 50 yards or so away.  The scene for us was more black and blue than it was black and white, as the light of the sun was just beginning to awaken the park.

–Dan Thompson