As you can see, Waterrock Knob, at Milepost 451.2 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, provides for some pretty spectacular views. This is looking west over the Great Smoky Mountains and off into the state of Tennessee. The highest mountain in the distance is Clingmans Dome… at 6,643 feet (2,025 meters), it is the third highest mountain east of the Mississippi. One of the fascinating things to me in this image is that you can see a definite terminator between the light of the rising sun behind me and the receding night beyond. The area of the fog beneath it is the Cherokee Indian Reservation.

Spring is quite evident here with service berry trees and pink shell azalea in bloom.