“As the rising sun broke the mountain’s edge and cast that beautiful autumnal morning light upon the sloped aspen treetops – radiating their golden warming glow to the cold tree-trunks below – I was reminded just how special the Spirit of this time of morning and year is. A time so fraught in glory, there should be a way to combine into one word both 'Autumn' and 'Morning' – the unity of which special enough in whole to be an entity of its own.” ~ Jack Mountain

Photographed on the Waterline Road, a publicly unused forest road near Flagstaff's Inner Basin and Lockett Meadow. As the sun was finally breaking the mountain horizon and casting that beautiful autumnal morning light, I was reminded just how special this time of morning and year is, like it ought to be its own special entity.