Month #37 - Retrospective of Daily Photos posted from 5/04 to 12/09 (most viewers for the month)

May 2007 - the start of my 4th year of shooting & posting a daily photo. I was on my 1st trip to the Great Smoky Mountains NP. Here's what I wrote when posting this in 5/07 -

5/5/07 - Golden Mist
Driving westward at sunrise looking for a photo op. Lots of ground fog so there's gotta' be something good up ahead there to shoot. Remembering the old adage to occasionally look behind, I did. Man - the rear view mirror was pure gold. Quick, find somewhere to pull off (like 1/2 mile down the road) before the sun gets much higher (by the time I got back the sun had risen enough to clear the hill at the left - would've been better 5 minutes sooner).
Here's a better version of this scene with the country road, fences, trees (including this one), mountains and sunrise. I chose the solo tree for this PAD mainly because of the color and not the better overall content that the "reject" has - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/78544196 - By the time that I got to this 2nd shot the mist had already started to lift. Narrow window of opportunity. Spent a lot of time climbing over barbed-wire fences last week.