A rainbow spans the skies above Knoxville, TN.  I saw the end of this rainbow - in the Tennesse River, next to the UT campus.
 
 

Statue with torch lit and the football stadium at the University of Tennessee, where the roads are all named after recent star athletes.
 
 

Noisy construction at the 1982 World's Fair site, immediately next to our conference.
 
 

Part of the conference center which hosted Evolution 2001.
 
 

A picturesque park in downtown Knoxville.
 

Federal courthouse in Knoxville.
 
 

A double rainbow in Pigeon Forge, TN - shortly before my car broke down.
 
 

A purple fungus(?) in the Smokies.
 
 

A black bear, proud mother of two cubs which I did not see.
 
 

Hen Wallow Falls.
 
 

The site where I camped the first night (flowing stream in background).
 
 

Life (a young tree) springs from death (an old stump).
 
 

Flowers of a white rhododendron.
 
 

This lichen was about the diameter of a beach ball.
 
 

Life encompasses death - a young tree grows out of a stump and surrounds it with roots.
 
 

Brook where I stopped for a while to read Thoreau.
 
 

A salamander near the same book (takes up most of the picture).
 
 

A small stream falls through hilly forest.
 
 

It's a snail.
 
 

I pause by a huge stump, big and hollow enough to make a good hut.
 
 

Some plants I took a liking to.
 
 

The view from up high.
 
 

A shy turtle in the middle of the trail.
 
 

Ghostly forest along a mountain ridge.
 
 

My path was lined with flower petals... then the thunderstorms hit.
 
 

A view past trees and pink rhododendrons.
 
 

A centipede(?) very common to the region.
 
 

Indian's Pipe.
 
 

Water cascades over a tall sheet of rock.
 
 

Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King preached.
 
 

Courtyard fountain of the MLK memorial site.
 
 

Atlanta's Olympic Park.
 
 

A building at the University of Georgia, where the Molecular Biology and Evolution conference was held.
 
 

Part of the beautiful downtown area of Athens, GA.