Waves are shimmering in the late evening light ... with Mt. Redoubt a clear silhouette against the yellows and golds of the setting sun.

This is the view from the Kenai Peninsula, across the waters of Alaska's Cook Inlet. The mountains there are active volcanoes - Augustine, Iliamna, Redoubt, Spurr.

Winters find these volcanoes deep in snow and echoing shades of blue and purple. While summer does not release them totally from the bonds of snow, it brings a softening to the mountains that ties them into the vivid greens that show so well during Alaska's long summer days.

I am truly blessed to live in this beautiful country.

~Iliamna's Quest~