The Backroad Portfolio team wishes you a holiday season filled with peace, love, and joy. We’re taking a few days off to spend time with family and friends, and hope you’re doing the same. Enjoy these wintry vistas from past issues and reader submissions. We’ll return to our usual email template after the New Year.
A rustic farm in Hamilton, Virginia, by Jennifer Linney
A Shenandoah Valley field in Virginia, by Lauren Price
Work boats in a foggy South Carolina marsh, by Robert Clark
Birds fly south in Wilmington, North Carolina, by Eifel Kreutz
Camellias in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Elizabeth Poland Shugg
A winter photo submitted by reader Michael Kelly
Aida enjoys a snowy day in Olin, North Carolina, by Erica de Flamand
The Milky Way above Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley by Nick - stock.adobe.com
Lake Wateree, South Carolina; painting by Harold Branham
A morning alpenglow in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, by Skiserge1 - stock.adobe.com
A wild horse grazes in Virginia’s Grayson Highlands State Park, by Eifel Kreutz
Mystic Farm & Distillery in Durham, North Carolina, by Bruce de Boer
An elk near Rocky Mountain State Park in Colorado, by Elizabeth Poland Shugg
Icy branches in North Carolina, by Erica de Flamand
A frosty birdhouse in North Carolina, by Erica de Flamand
Photo of Amelia, a Friesian X Tennessee Walker mare, on a misty winter morning by Grace Franklin
We hope you’re enjoying our weekly email and that you always remember to … Take the long way home.
Happy holidays beautiful photos and articles of places to visit. ❄️