In every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

"In every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

John Muir

I started up the trail about 5:30 A.M., intent on catching the sunrise from a point midway up Medicine Bow Peak.  As in previous years, I was hoping to find some wildflowers and to include them in the frame.  However, the flowers were mostly gone, a situation resulting from our unusually hot summer.  Once I realized this was the case, I found a spot on the trail where I could capture the white of the quartzite boulders in the foreground of the photo.  What I didn't know was that these rocks would begin to glow a deep pink as the sun rose.  Like so many other times in Nature, I was given a greater gift than the one I was seeking!

Photo: Medicine Bow Peak at sunrise; Snowy Range, WY; August 24, 2013