at some of the mountain's more dramatic moments. Was going through the pics I've uploaded over the past year or so and thought I'd share with this nature loving crowd.
This one was taken at dawn early last November just as as a winter storm was moving in.
And this one was taken near the end of May last year after a late spring snowstorm gave the peak a fresh coat of gleaming snow. I particularly like the
alpenglow colors that occur just at sunrise.
Pikes Peak (14,110) is sometimes called "America's Mountain" because a trip to the top of the mountain in 1893 was what inspired poet Katherine Lee Bates to pen
America The Beautiful (
http://www.fuzzylu.com/falmouth/bates/klbnotes.html)
Incidentally, the vantage point for both of these photos is my bedroom window at my home in Colorado Springs. Peeking out the window when I get up each morning is often quite a visual treat. ;D (I live on "the fruited plain", BTW
)
For those who've enjoyed my photos...here are a couple of Pikes Peak...
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