Luminous Clouds Cool cascades along the Middle

Cool cascades along the Middle Prong River in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park contrast beautifully with peak fall foliage

As a saxophonist

I remain fascinated and awestruck by what surrounds us in our everyday world

but one of my favorite television ad campaigns of all time was the classic Southwest Airlines "Wanna get away

Luminous Clouds Cool cascades along the MiddleI love winter. I guess it's because I grew up in southern Wisconsin, a place where the short days of December bring nightfall by about 4: 15 in the afternoon. A place where the first week of January is often notoriously cold, sometimes with many days in a row when the daytime never crests zero degrees Fahrenheit. But it's such a clarifying season. A time to rest, recharge, and see the natural world stripped down to its barest essentials. I caught this