This year has proven that Asheville is no place to spend the autumn if you don't like reds and golds and lots of them. This is a collection of photos I took over about 5 weeks this fall.

In the walled garden at Biltmore, they featured thousands of mums. On billboards around town, they had photos of the house with the caption "mum's the word". Subtle but clever and the subtlety certainly didn't reduce the size of the crowds.