Awakened Senses: An Encounter with the Smoky Mountains and Her Neighbors by Roxanne Bouché Overton The Great Smoky Mountains are the most visited national park in the United States - known for their ancient ridgelines, swirling mists, blazing autumn color, and quiet valleys where the senses open and the world becomes deeper, softer, and more alive. In Awakened Senses , fine-art photographer Roxanne Bouché Overton invites you into this landscape with a visual journey that celebrates the soul of the Smokies and the subtle magic of the forests, fields, and foothills that surround them. Created during an immersive three-day exploration with a local expert (page 6), this collection reveals the Smoky Mountains through all five senses: • Taste of swirling mists and rain-washed rock (page 10) • Touch of grasses, foliage, and autumn textures (pages 10–25) • Sight in rich painterly layers and shifting light (pages 39–52) • Hear in the quiet rhythm of trees and sentinels (pages 54–63) • Smell in the vastness and atmosphere of mountain dawns (pages 62–70) Roxanne’s photographs transform the familiar into the unexpected - fog rising against layered ridges (page 19), fields lit with soft gold (page 20), stands of birch and poplar rendered in minimalist line and texture (pages 3, 5, 13), and the dense, colorful foliage for which the Smokies are world-famous (pages 8, 18). This book is a tribute to seeing differently: slowing down, engaging the senses, and allowing nature’s quiet details to take hold. Whether you love the Smoky Mountains, fine-art landscape photography, or simply crave a moment of calm in a noisy world, Awakened Senses offers a contemplative and richly visual experience. Perfect for nature lovers, travelers, collectors of landscape photography, and anyone drawn to the timeless beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains - the most visited national park in America.