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part two: northern alabama/southeastern tennessee fall color and creative weirdness road trip 2010-11-09 - 8:08 a.m. all photos © 2010 by elaine radford Step back for part 1 of our Northern Alabama/Southeastern Tennessee fall colors road trip. Here's part 2 -- now with more fall colors. Monte Sano State Park was in full color -- absolutely awesome. Sadly, my photographs simply don't do justice to the color. The picture at the top of the page is only a hint of a shadow of what we actually saw. Another tough to photograph attraction is the humongous Cathedral Caverns. Because of the sheer size of the cave interior, it was impossible to light it well, and it was quite dark inside. We could see the impressive formations but a camera flash was a joke to these structures. You would need to arrange for a tour where you could bring a tripod, which would mean paying quite a bit more than our group tour where you were expected to keep up -- even if you were 101, tee hee. The photo below is just a hint of what you will see. Cathedral Caverns had some help from, well, high-powered explosives in order to get that nice wide cathedral entrance. Russell Cave, at Russell Cave National Monument, came by its wide entrance by nature, and thus it became the airy, atmospheric fall and winter home of various cave or semi-cave dwelling people since around 10,000 B.C. And it came equipped with natural running water too. So why wouldn't the good cave folks live there during the spring or summer, especially after all the nice speeches about how cool it is in the caves during the heat of an Alabama summer? Well, you know, nobody ever quite answered that question, but I think I figured it out anyway, around about the time that I read that the Clarkson Covered Bridge had once been wiped out by a flood. Yeppers, good friends and neighbors, apparently no one remembers it now, and hence the interior dwellers feel safe to laugh at us coastal residents for our exposure to various watery adventures, but prior to the invention of the Tennessee Valley Authority and its motto "Dam Tennessee!" (and Alabama too, no doubt) it appears that large areas that we think of as hilly or even mountainous filled up with water in the spring snow melt season. Yikes. So some of you guys up there at God-knows-what-all elevation are no less exposed to flood than the humble Peachfront at her mere 15 feet above sea level. The Russell Cave area was at the absolute peak of color, and I am disappointed that photos can't touch this. Yellows, oranges, and reds. Just magnificent. I put a photo of the trees for the heck of it, but you won't know what it's really like unless you go there yourself. We crossed a colorful mountain into Tennessee and eventually found ourselves hiking in the lovely Fall View Falls State Park. Yes, in addition to the yellows, oranges, reds, and browns, they had pink trees. Cute. The (crazy) Minister's Tree House and Millennial Manor will get their own pages in due course, so let's skip ahead to the Smoky Mountains National Park in the rain, tee hee. Lots of deer & turkey but poor conditions for photos even though they were close. Here, the trees were starting to turn brown or had even dropped at elevation, but there was still a good bit of color in the valley. For a day that included rain, fog, snow, and hail, I sure had to time it right to get a photo with a car with its lights on coming through the tunnel. That's probably most or all of the fall color photos I'll be posting from this road trip. Stay tuned for the true weirdness, be it Mary-inspired mosaics, be it rockets to the moon, be it the world's zaniest treehouse, be it the house meant to withstand the Second Coming...and beyond. Because the South might rise again, and Jesus might rise again, but don't expect Jesus to build your house for you, Bunky, that's your job. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford