Last week I drove down to the Eminence area to do some rockhunting and had a couple of new rockhounds with me and Missy. I stopped off at the Summersville Mill the week before, on my way home and photographed it on a beautiful cloudy day…..

…it sits on the east side of town and has been restored recently….

…here we were a week later, driving down past it and I wondered if there was any good fall color in the Jacks Fork Valley, specifically thinking about Alley Spring Mill. We decided to stop and stretch our legs and find out….

Alley Spring Mill is one of my favorite mills to photograph, restored and preserved by the US Forest Service, and I have photographed it in the spring, summer, and winter months, but never in the fall with any good color, so I was pleasantly surprised to find a little bit of good color this time there. I also enjoyed the nice reflections in the rushing waters behind the mill….

…we then walked around to the spring side of the pond and shot back across….where again, there was just a litlte bit of color to be found there….