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Twin trees “Fred and Ethel” on the Blue Ridge Parkway near mile marker 290. Leslie Restivo photo
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Hoar frost, Newfound Gap Road, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Missy Arney photo
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Trees frame the Lower Falls of Graveyard Fields. Ralph Mayer photo
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Rainy day trees on the Biltmore Estate. Mike McGevna photo
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Trees on Mount Mitchell. Missy Arney photo
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A Willow Sunrise, Sevierville, Tennessee. Timothy H. Fisher photo
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Twin Giant Tulip popular trees in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. Phil Baxter photo
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View from Clingman’s Dome. Greg Passmore photo
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A former cedar tree. Jim Caldwell photo
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“Apartment Complex,” Tennessee Overhill area. Jim Caldwell photo
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A lone tree at Clingman’s Dome. Christy Wheeler photo
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John Forbes photo
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Craggy Pinnacle, Pisgah National Forest. dawnfirephotography.com/WNC Photo Tours
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Mount LeConte. Kaye Gatlin photo
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Sunrise looking over the Green River Gorge in Saluda, North Carolina. Kristen Mayer photo
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The dome comb tree at Clingmans Dome. Adam Gravett photo
Thank you to our many readers who submitted their favorite tree photos. If you haven’t recited a portion of the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer, go look it up and enjoy. We here in the mountains live near the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, one of the nation’s most impressive remnants of old-growth forest, located about 15 miles from Robbinsville, North Carolina.