6800 YearsComet Neowise graces the night sky over Oregon's Mt. Hood. Considering we won't see a return visit for 6800 years, the midnight wakeup call and early morning hike up Tom, Dick, and Harry mountain seemed a reasonable sacrifice to make.

Moonset over the aspen groves of Colorado starts to bring the autumn colors alive

Hood in Oregon

A fiery sunrise envelopes Mt

this area was destroyed by a wildfire in 2017

While driving to photograph sunrise in a different area of Glacier National Park

Channels formed by the 1980 eruption of Mt

Light piercing through the giant redwood trees of Northern California creates wonderful graphic patterns in the coastal fog

But hike up in the dark and you will find you have this wonderful location all to yourself

and achingly beautiful

it always feels like there should be noise associated with it

The misty atmosphere settling in amongst these Colorado aspens was created not by fog

leaving me utterly devastated