A MOMENT OF TRANQUILITY FROZEN WATERFALL the landscape opens up to

the landscape opens up to this majestic and serene rocky mountain scene as Mills Lake and Chiefs Head Peak reveals themselves on this cool August morning in Rocky Mountain National Park

As I was snowshoeing along

A beautiful and typical desert southwest landscape scene with an impressive young saguaro cactus standing close to a blue palo verde tree at Saguaro National Park

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is named after the harebell flower

A MOMENT OF TRANQUILITY FROZEN WATERFALL the landscape opens up toIt was a cool August summer morning when I arrived at the trailhead to Bierstadt Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. I started up the steep trail at 5: 15 am to catch the sunrise at the lake and the Continental Divide. It would take me just under an hour to reach the lake. There are numerous switchbacks leading up the mountain through some stands of aspen trees. After about 20 minutes, I no longer needed my headlamp to guide my way up the mountain.