It's been a beautiful month in the Smokies.  May has offered many fantastic views.  It;s been cool and wet here in the higher elevations.  The wildflowers are still showing their color.  The deep snows of this past winter already seem far away.  This Sand Myrtle growing on a Nurse Log is a scene I pass fairly often.  This winter it was under snow and I thought about it every time I walked over the spot where it lay.  It's amazing to me that one life falls and from that ending many new and beautiful things spring up.