Yankee Boy Basin, Colorado
A field of paintbrush carpets a Texas field in the spring. I'd hoped to get this scene on film, but a cloud changed those plans. "Sometimes chicken, sometimes feathers," said my cousin, who had come along for the ride with me.
A fast-approaching thunderstorm reminded me why this is called "Stormy Peaks". Truthfully, I should have kept hurrying to timberline but I couldn't resist this little arrangement of Columbine in the rocks at 12,000' on the north side of Rocky Mountain National Park.
