Rainbow Falls, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Winter 2014.

Rainbow Falls, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Winter 2014.

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park. Late Spring 2006.

Moraine Lake, Mount Bowlen, Tonsa Peak, Mount Perren, Banff National Park, Alberta/British Columbia, Canada. Late Spring 2006.

National Cathedral, Washington D.C.. Fall 2012. Seven years ago, a 5.8 magnitude Earthquake damaged the @WNCathedral. The netting was temporarily installed to protect from falling debris. At the right time of day, it caught the sunlight streaming through the stained glass.

Middle Prong, Little Pigeon River, Greenbrier, Great Smoky Mountains, 2016

Snowfield Peak, Colonial Peak, Pyramid Peak, North Cascades National Park, June 2015

This photograph was taken from the same overlook where the Davis Peak photograph was taken.  Snowfield Peak is on the far left, Colonial Peak is the tall, bare, peak in the middle, and Pyramid Peak is on the right.  Paul Bunyans Stump is just to the left of Pyramid Peak.  They comprise the Skagit Gneiss Complex formed some 90 million years ago.

The storm clouds from earlier in the day were breaking up, but the challenge was to get a photograph without sun caused flares (avoided by holding my hand above the lends just outside of the frame).  A sliver of the Thunder Arm of Diablo Lake shows in the bottom left.

Davis Peak, Diablo Lake, North Cascades National Park, June 2015

Davis Peak towers above Diablo Lake which splits the North Cascades National Park.  This is taken from the overlook along the North Cascades Scenic Highway.  There aren't any bad views from the overlook though if you look along the water line you'll see the high voltage lines from Diablo Dam.

Kangaroo Ridge, Silver Star Mountain, Wine Spires, North Cascades Scenic Highway, June 2015

The views along the North Cascades Scenic Highway are among the most beautiful anywhere.  This panorama was taken from the same spot where the Liberty Bell photo was taken (the next morning).  I've been there several times, the last time in June 2009. The names of the peaks aren't easy to identify from the topographic maps, but at least they have been updated to show the highway.  While at the North Cascades National Park visitor center, I bought Jack McLeod's book, The North Cascades Highway, which was quite helpful in identifying the names of the peaks.  The title of the post reverses them so right to left, they are Kangaroo Ridge, Silver Star Mountain and the Wine Spires (each peak being named for different wines, Chablis, Pernod, Burgundy and Chianti).  Vasiliki Tower is left of the Wine Spires.