The full "Moon Before Yule" as it sets behind the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina on the early morning of 23 December. It was so bright in the cold mountain air that it lit up the landscape almost like daylight!
The rime ice covered mountains form a wintry backdrop for this lonely barn near Alvarado, Virginia. Rime ice is the result of water vapor from fog freezing directly on the trees.
A vintage hay rake waiting for spring under a newly fallen snow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
