I was struck by the color of these maple leaves in the foreground spiraling up from green to red in an inverted seasonal display. With summer days away the red leaves newly emerging already hint at autumn. The tall peak in the distance is Mt. Mitchell, the highest summit in the US east of the Mississippi River at 6669 feet. In these tall Appalachian mountains the summer is short and winter is long.
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