One of my favorite places in the Tetons is the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration and the view...
... from inside the church of the Tetons.
There is something special about these mountains...
... the jagged giants of rock and snow and green strips of flora...
... with graceful clear water...
... and green trees.
You can watch the water flow down ...
... and form streams and rivers...
... and stop to admire the majesty of this great park...
... of peaks ...
... and wonderful wildlife.
Canyons that seem to reach infinity...
... where even tiny creatures thrive...
... in rugged terrain...
... that takes your breath away ...
...as you stand so close to nature's power and grace.
Even in Autumn you can see the winter that follows...
... creeping in in white touches on the mountains...
...and even look back to Spring and summer's green...
...and be a part of the great park...
and it's glacier covered crevices.
Western art is everywhere around you but you can't help but know what inspired the early cowboys...
... when you look across a field at the splendor ...
... and enormity of this place...
...and imagine the big horn sheep or bear or mountain lions that surely exist in the heights of the mountains.
I could take a thousand images of the Tetons and still not capture everything ...
... there is to see...
... like the rippling rock sentinels along this ridge.
I look at what I captured here and wonder what season it is ...
... when I can see two seasons from one vantage point ...
... ore even all four and a bit of the movie Shane with a modern twist.
It occurs to me you can't really capture the Tetons ...
... it is the Tetons that capture me ...
...surrounding me ...
... with a living legacy of mankind...
... and a true Garden of Eden.
Quote of the Day ~ "There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the
groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado,
the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should
see to it that they are preserved for their children and their
children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
