Ryan's "Fall"

I hope everyone will forgive me for my inattention to the photo contest the past few months. I was in the process of planning a wedding, then having that wedding, then having a honeymoon!

We went backpacking in Great Smoky Mountain National Park for our honeymoon. One day we went to see Grotto Falls - a waterfall in the fall.

Fred's Fall

Cory's Fall

One of my favorite parts of Fall is when there's a nice thick blanket of leaves covering everything.  It's that narrow period of time where the leaves have just fallen and are still full of color and before they dry up and just become a mess that makes the ground look so nice.  Luckily, I didn't have to worry about raking these ones up - they were beneath the trees at the Washington Park Arboretum.