PHOTO ESSAY OPPOSITE PAGE: A salamander playing hide-andgo-seek in the mossy forests of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. PHOTO BY DAWNFIRE PHOTOGRAPHY TOP RIGHT: A Bradford pear tree offers full spring bloom along the trail at Laurel Run Park in Church Hill, Tennessee. PHOTO BY JOSHUA MOORE RIGHT: A male ruby-throated hummingbird watches over his feeder territory in Northeast Tennessee. Despite their small size, they will ferociously guard their food source, chasing off any intruders. PHOTO BY RYAN RICE LOWER RIGHT: A whitetailed deer fawn hides in the grass of Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia as it waits for its mother to return to feed it. PHOTO BY PAT AND CHUCK BLACKLEY MARCH/APRIL 2022 39