Gallery:

SUNSETS FROM

HILTON POND NORTH

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26 February 2024

Hilton Pond North: The first sunset photo from our new mountain cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of upper Ashe County NC, with White Pines and Black Birches instead of those familiar Loblolly Pines and Sweetgums of our former residence and study site in the South Carolina Piedmont.

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10 May 2024

One thing we really enjoy at Hilton Pond North in the Blue Ridge Mountains of upper Ashe County NC is watching the way sunlight and shadows play on the ridges and valleys surrounding us—especially at dusk. It's just breathtaking. That's Phoenix Mountain in the distance.

21 May 2024

Brief pop-up thunderstorms blew through about dusk at Hilton Pond North, not quite clearing the air of haze but making for a pleasant moonrise to the east. Although it was quite bright out, the May full Moon didn't occur until two days later.

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06 August 2024

This evening photo faces east looking down Silas Creek Road at the driveway entrance to Hilton Pond North. The creek flows right to left downstream under the bridge (see guardrails) and parallels the road before bisecting a large cattle meadow across from world-famous Phipps General Store near Lansing NC. (Now open only on Friday nights for a mountain music jam.) Silas Creek eventually empties into the North Fork of the New River about a mile from here.

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14 August 2024

Taken a few days later from the same spot at Hilton Pond North as the image just above, this photo shows the top of the distant ridge line painted in the golden glow of the setting Sun.

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06 February 2025

Soon those bare naked hardwoods will be budding out and our view of the sunset from our mountain cabin at Hilton Pond North will be quite different.

08 February 2025

Posted in honor of yesterday's 48th birthday of Billy Hilton III.

10 February 2025

With "Winter Storm Warning" in the forecast for our Blue Ridge Mountains we're not sure what tomorrow will bring, but this evening's western sky at Hilton Pond North was delightful rather than ominous.

23 February 2025

The twin-trunked White Pine just west of our Hilton Pond North cabin took a beating from recent ice and windstorms. Lots of limbs and needles littered our driveway, but not so much the tree(s) won't survive. We also lost large branches on several hardwoods; up on the high ridge a few more 100-year-plus behemoths simply toppled over in 60 mph gusts. Nature is always changing—some days in ways we don't necessarily like—but it's all part of the big picture.