Photo Essay Serviceberry is the predominant bloom in this view from Cowee Mountains Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway (milepost 430.7), near Waynesville, North Carolina. Photo by Robert Stephens. Spring's Nigh! It's the blossoms as much as the warmth that welcome the new season. For more of our photographers' beauties, visit solitarytravelerphotography.com (Robert Stephens) and pcblackley.smugmug.com (Pat & Chuck Blackley). 34 BlueRidgeCountry.com Top right: Flowered trillium provides a pretty border along the Porters Creek Trail in the Tennessee portion of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo by Pat & Chuck Blackley. Middle right: Mayapples, which emerge in early spring, flank the Appalachian Trail in the Thompson Wildlife Management Area in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Photo by Pat & Chuck Blackley.http://www.solitarytravelerphotography.com http://pcblackley.smugmug.com http://www.BlueRidgeCountry.com