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Photo Essay: Loving on the Cold

First light paints the mountains near a wind-shaped oak on Max Patch in North Carolina.

Photo Above: First light paints the mountains near a wind-shaped oak on Max Patch in North Carolina.
©Lori Kincaid

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©Preston Ball Photography

Hay Kinda Day, on Jessee Farm, which is a Century Farm (over 100 years old), in Russell County, Virginia, in a section known as Green Valley, at the base of the Clinch Mountain.

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©Dana Foreman

Farm dog Bella welcomed the freshly fallen snow on the Belly Acre Farm in Old Fort, North Carolina.

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©Dana Foreman

Frolicking in the fresh powder of winter, Cashay the horse finds joy prancing about the pasture on the Belly Acre Farm in Old Fort, North Carolina.

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©Mike Koenig

Snowy Grandfather Mountain taken from MacRae Meadows Linville, North Carolina.

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©Robert Stephens

A wintry cascade along the Margarette Falls Trail, located near Greeneville, Tennessee.

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©Christian Murillo

The sun shines through the frozen foliage on an icy morning on Brasstown Bald, Georgia.

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©J. Scott Graham

A fire lookout built by the Virginia State Forest Service in 1942 stands on top of Groundhog Mountain near Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 189.

The story above is from our January/February 2020 issue.

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