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Sherry Shook photo
Tell it on the mountain
Leicester, N.C.
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Jo Harris photo
Get your motor runnin'
Antiques at the Bean Barn, Greeneville, Tenn.
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Bonnie Waigland photo
Timeless timbers
Barn at Cades Cove, Tenn.
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Beverly Slone photo
Frosty foliage
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Bill & Flo Martin photo
Something to hold on to
Icicles.
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Gary Pinholster photo
Frozen flow
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Gary Pinholster photo
Ice dam
Old Mill, Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
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Courtesy of Steven Weber
Neither rain nor snow, nor sleet nor dark of night ...
John W. Oliver delivering mail along Parsons Branch Road in Cades Cove, Tenn.
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Gary Pinholster photo
Snowy fawn
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