Breathtaking

There is a portion of a verse in the Bible book of Job in which a friend named Elihu exhorts the suffering Job concerning his trials. He tells Job:"Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God." A scene like this certainly causes one to pause and just stand in awe.

Molas Lake sits at a high elevation near Molas Pass, south of Silverton on Highway 550. We were returning to Colorado from a week of fall vacation in Utah and decided to drive from Durango, north over Red Mountain pass to view the changing fall colors. As the sun began to set, we hurried to Molas Lake, hoping to catch some nice color as the sun set and the nearly full moon began to rise. Our expectations were enormously surpassed by what we saw. Grabbing our cameras, we only had a few minutes to capture images of the illuminated clouds, the reflective lake and the glowing Grenadier Peaks. The beauty of the scene was most certainly “breathtaking.” HDR image taken late September 2015.