Hey, let’s not short the cold season, hard as it may be to step outside into it. Our contributing photographers certainly brave the elements, and are back with the beautiful proof.
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Lori Kincaid
First light paints the mountains near a wind-shaped oak on Max Patch in North Carolina.
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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.
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