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The trees at the upper elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are just starting to show their fall colors. The clouds press down on the mountain top and thefall foliage at Clingmans Dome. ( J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL )

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The trees at the upper elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are just starting to show their fall colors. The clouds press down on the mountain top and thefall foliage at Clingmans Dome.

( J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL )

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  • The trees at the upper elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are just starting to show their fall colors. The clouds press down on the mountain top and thefall foliage at Clingmans Dome. ( J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL )
  • Cal Knoke rides his bike on the fog-shrouded Melton Lake Greenway last week in Oak Ridge. Knoke, a retiree who volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, exercises five times a week on the 5.6 mile greenway. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
  • J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL Trees have grown up around a retired tractor in a farm field along side Lambdin Road near Andersonville in Anderson County. Neighbors say the tractor, which has been there as long as they can remember, is a popular object for photograpy enthusiasts.
  • AMY SMOTHERMAN BURGESS/NEWS SENTINEL Employees of Associated Scaffolding of Knoxville work on the steeple of the First Baptist Church Tuesday. Repairs were made to the copper roof by A+ Construction after hail damaged the structure in an April 2011 storm. "Folks have been very impressed with the beauty of it" says Pam Neal, minister of administration for the church. "It's the same, but shinier."
  • AMY SMOTHERMAN BURGESS/NEWS SENTINEL Jack Dramm, left, and Ron Wice spend the afternoon fishing last week at The Cove in Concord Park. The men, who are both retired, were catching small bluegills while "escaping chores at home."
  • Erin Beaty, left, and Patrick Kelly view the sheer cliff of Mead's Quarry from a paddle board earlier this summer at Ijams Nature Center. The 25-acre lake and surrounding quarry was added to the nature preserve in 2005. Canoes, paddle boards and mountain bike rentals are provided by River Sports on weekends. (SAUL YOUNG/NEWS SENTINEL)
  • Kelly Dreier, left and her mother Tandy Dreier the Assistant Director of the Wallace Memorial after school program shelter from the rain under an umbrella while they watch the programs children play in the fountains at the Worlds Fair Park Monday August 6, 2012.
  • Pigeons take flight during a thunderstorm recently in downtown Knoxville. Overall, July was a wet month for the area, with 6.27 inches of rain recorded at McGhee Tyson Airport, 1.19 inches above normal, according to National Weather Service forecaster David Gaffin.
  • Marty, left, Jennifer and Mary Claire Chappetto of Chicago cross Abrams Creek during a Cades Cove Riding Stables tour last week in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mary Claire is riding 'Yuck,' an Appaloosa that is one of the most popular of the stables' 55 horses according to stable manager Ronnie Lee. "We have (guests) from all over the world — Japan, China, Australia, Russia, Germany. And 95 percent of them speak English," he said.
  • ADAM BRIMER/NEWS SENTINEL John Paschal waits for customers for his selection of Empire tomatoes Tuesday in Farragut. Viewers of 1980s cable television may recognize Paschal as the mayor of Crab Orchard on the Nashville Network sitcom "I-40 Paradise."
  • Fishermen on the Clinch River are shrouded in fog over the cold water released from TVA's Norris Dam Thursday in Norris. The water temperature would likely be 40-50 degrees F., depending on the day and time, according to TVA spokesman Scott Brooks. (J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel)
  • Katelyn Turpin, 12, left, and her twin cousins Tanner and Skylar Byus, 5, beat the heat Monday at River Mountain Park at Volunteer Landing.
  • Visitors to the Smoky Mountains enjoy a cool float Monday on the Little River in Townsend. Mary Webb of the Blount Partnership said so many people are out on inner tubes at this time of year "you could walk down the middle of the river without touching the water."
  • A moth rests on Queen Anne's lace at the home of Michael Sexton on Satterfield Road in Union County near Maynardville Thursday, June 21, 2012. The plant, which features tiny white flowers, can also be referred to as 'wild carrot.' (ADAM BRIMER/NEWS SENTINEL)
  • Garrett Hickman, 7, climbs a tree at Jo's Grove at Ijam's Nature Center on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Jo's Grove is a play area for children that was added more than a year ago. A small playhouse occupies the center of the wooded area near a group of rounded huts and is surrounded with benches for sitting and low growing trees for climbing. The are is named for the late Josephine 'Jo' Ijams Kern, one of the four daughters of H.P. and Alice Yoe Ijams. (SAUL YOUNG/NEWS SENTINEL)
  • Lithko Contacting concrete workers put the finishing touches to a wall 33-feet in height at the Beverage Control Inc. construction site Thursday, May 30, 2012 in Mechanicsville. The Nashville-based construction contractor is installing 4,400 yards of concrete at the new home for the wine wholesaler. Blaine Construction is the general contractor for the job.
  • The Great Ape of Pigeon Forge towers over a workman who is putting the finishing touches to the new Hollywood Wax Museum. The ape houses an Observation Deck with a view of the Great Smoky Mountains. The Museum with its stock of celebrity likenesses opened last week.
  • Holly Abston, left, Michelle Mueller, Jennifer Mueller and Nadia Fomin play badminton on Saturday at a Kentucky Derby party in New Market, Tenn. The party, held at the 6.4-acre farm of Chris and Angela Vanessa Smith, also included a game of croquet that was then capped off with a viewing of the super moon around a bonfire. (Jigsha Desai/News Sentinel)
  • Thick fog enshrouds leafless trees along an unmarked road on Haley's Mountain near Crab Orchard, Tenn., on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. The mountain, and the area surrounding it, is unique for a variety of sandstone called Crab Orchard Stone that is not found anywhere else in the world. According to resident John Moore, 'It's much harder than sandstone. It doesn't chip away like regular sandstone. It also has swirls of red, purples, and browns. Frank Lloyd Wright used the stone. It's also in the White House and Rockafeller Center.'
  • Nonnative European starlings flock last month in Mechanicsville. According to News Sentinel Birdlife columnist Marcia Davis, the species was released into North America in 1890 in New York City's Central Park. The flocks may be a nuisance when roosting after the breeding season in cities and residential areas.
  • A Kobai Japanese flowering apricot blooms along the Neyland Greenway Friday at the University of Tennessee Trial Garden. Blooms brought out by recent warm weather could be nipped this weekend as a low of about 20 is forecast by the National Weather Service. (ADAM BRIMER/NEWS SENTINEL)
  • A pedestrian braves the rain early Tuesday on Gay Street. The area had about 1/2-inch of rain Tuesday according to National Weather Service meteorologist Shawn O'Neill. Colder and drier air can be expected Wednesday with a high of 40 degrees. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)
  • Weather appropriate footwear was in evidence on the first day of spring semester classes Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 at the University of Tennessee. According to the National Weather Service, there is a 70 percent chance of rain and snow showers for Thursday with a high in the mid 40's. (AMY SMOTHERMAN BURGESS/NEWS SENTINEL)
  • A coat of ice and snow covers trees last month in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Gatlinburg. For 2011, the Park counted 8,537,228 visits through November, down by 2.5% from the same period a year before according to spokesman Bob Miller.
  • Car collector Mike Clabough enters his 1940 Studebaker Thursday at his home in New Market, Tenn. Clabough is a retired Navy jet mechanic who works on an assortment of vintage autos at his Jefferson County farm. He is the fourth owner of the Studebacker which has all its original parts. (Paul Efird/News Sentinel)

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