Sunrise Over White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, NM

"With every sunrise, our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get energized with new life." ~ Debasish Mridha

Colorado Summer Sunbeam

"Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray." ~Philip Sidney

Summer Sunset - Gore Range, Colorado

"Choose only one master – nature." ~ Rembrandt van Rijn

Yosemite Valley Sunset -Yosemite National Park, CA

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. Fernando Botero

Sunset on Porcelain Basin - Yellowstone National Park, WY

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” ~Crowfoot

Rising Sun Over White Sands National Park, Alamogordo, NM

The desert flower blooms in the hot lazy sun
 Anticipating Mother Nature to send someone
 To photograph the beauty of it all 
To take in all the colors of the fall
 The warm wind sways her gently to and fro
 Dancing mystically, putting on a show
Dispensing aromas you can almost see
Soothing the eyes so magically
 Between the fire and the sand
 It fits in style to the lay of the land
Its’ thirsty thorns reach out to a mirage 
Luring those brave enough to make a charge
 To not have seen it would be a sin
 It arouses senses that only come from within
 It yearns for a loving touch of the human hand
 It aches for you to understand
 It stands guard as it is its duty
 To pronounce itself a desert beauty ~ Alfred Ramos

Sunset Over Mono Lake Tufa Towers, Mono Lake, CA

"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value." ~ Claude Monet

Colorado Front Range Sunset

“When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.” ~Julia Gregson

Sunset Over Walden Pond, Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Boulder

“I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.”  ~ Sanober Khan

Aspen Blaze - Castle Creek Road, Aspen, CO

"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees." ~ Faith Baldwin

Mount Evans Wilderness, Colorado.

"Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn." ~Anatoli Boukreev

Little House On The Prairie

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." ~Pamela Hansford Johnson

Mesa Arch Sunrise - Canyonlands National Park, UT

"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." ~ John Muir

White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, NM

"I keep my simplicity in my soul Spread over me like a clear sky Reflecting all that I am And all that’s ever passed me by" ~ Sanober Khan

Gorton Creek Sunset, Columbia River Gorge, OR

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” ~ Roman Payne

First Light - Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, Aspen, CO

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows." ~ John Muir

Last Light - Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, CO

“HEARTWORK Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. And every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART.” ~ Suzy Kassem

Nature's Light and Colors Show

“Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to the inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to the inner love; it will transform you.” ~Sri Chinmoy

Mount Sneffles 14,150' - Mount Sneffels Wilderness, CO

"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." ~ Og Mandino

Black Growler Steam Vent, Norris Geyser Basin -Yellowstone National Park, WY

"If what is true is repressed, it will bubble up from deep effecting everything in it's path. Volcanoes stand as an omen for change being forced if you will not flow, to a difference in perspective or shift in awareness that results when what we live isn't supporting the essence of what is really true." ~ Unknown

Sunset Over Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, CO.

"I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature's Drama - Mount Wilson (14,246') and Wilson Peak (14,017'') Ophir, CO

Ooh, it makes me wonder Ooh, it makes me wonder ………. It's just a spring clean for the May queen Yes, there are two paths you can go by But in the long run There's still time to change the road you're on And it makes me wonder ~ Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)

Ocean Waves, Cape Kiwanda, Pacific City, OR

"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach." ~ Henry Beston