I took a Sunday stroll over the Great Smokies and up the Blue Ridge Parkway a bit today. The leaves are not quite peaked but are looking much better color-wise than the last few years. The image above was taken standing on top of "The Loop" tunnel just above the Chimneys trailhead. The red berries lower right are Jack-in-the-Pulpit fruit. I had to wait a very long time to get this short stretch clear of cars, and still managed to clip one at the very top. Oh well, I've created a gallery of today's pics at this link. Nothing special, just the usual sights along the way. Be sure to scroll right below the thumbnails to see all of them.