Ashe County, North Carolina, is the nation’s largest producer of Christmas trees with over 20 million Fraser firs in production. For the best viewing experience, click to see a high-resolution version.
Cheers,
C. S.
Lovely, locally grown pumpkin and squash arrangements greetings greet Autumn visitors in West Jefferson, Ashe County, North Carolina. For the best viewing experience, click to see a high resolution version.
The Upper Creeks Falls is a short hike from NC Highway 18, located about 6 miles south of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Linville Falls, in the Pisgah National Forest.
Moore Cove Falls is a 50ft (15.25m) waterfall in the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, North Carolina. The falls flow over an overhanging bluff that allows visitors to walk behind the falls. During my visit in mid-October, Moore Creek had dried to just more than a trickle. Nonetheless, the view was still quite beautiful.
For the best viewing experience, click to view a high-resolution version from my portfolio site.
Cheers!
C. S.
To reach the top of Hawksbill Mountain, you must accomplish a 50-minute moderate to strenuous hike from the service road. As you yield the trail to hikers on their way down, you often hear ‘it’s worth the effort’. And indeed, once you complete your ascent, you are awarded with a spectacular view of Linville Gorge.
Taken in mid-October, the peak fall foliage was still a week or so away. Even with some moderate foliage color, this image seemed to work better in monochrome.
Cheers,
Sam
This pastural landscape was captured in rural Ashe County, near Apple Grove. The pasture is surrounded by numerous Christmas tree farms.
Cheers!
C. S.
Detailed composition of the base of the 60 ft. (18.3 meters) tall Crabtree Falls, off the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Earlier this month, I tent camped at the Crabtree Falls campground the night before making the strenuous 3 mile (4.8 kilometer) loop hike down to the falls and back the following day. For the best viewing experience, click to view a high resolution version.
Cheers,
C. S.
Estimated to have been built in the early 1800s, this chimney marks the remains of an old farmhouse located down in a holler off of Landmark Church Road in Ashe County, North Carolina.
Cheers,
C. S.
Found this well preserved 19th century log cabin on the backroads in the northwestern Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Cheers,
C. S.
For Lent this year, I’ve committed to turning my thoughts and desires away from material wants and instead focusing on the simple things in life that truly sustain happiness.
C. S.
Monochromia 
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