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Jon and Regina Phillips photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
Cades Cove.
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Mary Meiners photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
House Mountain Ridge Trail, near Knoxville, Tenn.
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Mark Roberts photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
Great horned owl Bays Mountain, Tenn.
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Lynn Filtenborg photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
Cades Cove.
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Jon and Regina Phillips photo
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Winter under the stars at Spivey Falls.
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Vonda B. Magill photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
Along Cades Cove.
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Bonnie Waigand photo
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In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Vonda B. Magill photo
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Sun rays and snowy mountaintops
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Terri Campbell photo
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South Holston Mountain near Bristol, Tenn.
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Gary Pinholster photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
January snow, Waynesville, N.C.
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Greg W. Passmore photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
Nantahala River Falls with snow
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Gary Pinholster photo
December 2016 Photo Essay
Maggie Valley, N.C.
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Jon and Regina Phillips
December 2016 Photo Essay
On top of Round Bald, Roan Mountain, Tenn.
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