Orig­i­nally the trip out the Bilt­more was for the hyper­fo­cal chal­lenge (one of the pho­tos above made the chal­lenge, not my great­est work but Eryn did get a fea­tured spot with her entry), and we ended up wan­der­ing around a bit more. Or at least, I did.

My biggest sur­prise was see­ing the Bass Pond totally iced, with a bit of water drain­ing over the water­fall edge from under the ice sheet.