PURPLE MOUNTAIN REFLECTIONS PHYSICAL FITNESS purple and yellow coneflowers

purple and yellow coneflowers

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A box elder tree stands tall to the prairie grasses along the banks of Eakin Creek West as the sun behind peeks through the clouds at Wildflower Park

I was looking for some good wildflower composition to photograph and came upon this patch of common milkweed close to the trail

PURPLE MOUNTAIN REFLECTIONS PHYSICAL FITNESS purple and yellow coneflowersIt was a cool August summer morning when I arrived at the trailhead to Bierstadt Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. I started up the steep trail at 5: 15 am to catch the sunrise at the lake and the Continental Divide. It would take me just under an hour to reach the lake. There are numerous switchbacks leading up the mountain through some stands of aspen trees. After about 20 minutes, I no longer needed my headlamp to guide my way up the mountain.