Light and snow transforms the Colorado mountains into fairyland scenery

Evidence

Mountains with pine-clothed skirts rose in ranges, or, solitary, uplifted their grey summits, while close behind, but nearly 3,000 feet above us, towered the bald white crest of Long’s Peak, its huge precipices red with the light of a sun long lost to our eyes. Close to us, in the caverned side of the Peak, was snow that, owing to its position, is eternal. Soon the afterglow came on, and before it faded a big half-moon hung out of the heavens, shining through the silver blue foliage of the pines on the frigid background of snow, and turning the whole into fairyland. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 108

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rocky Mountain alpine scenery rendered sublime, silent beauty worth dwelling on — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 106; Sudden heavy snowfall transformed the Colorado landscape overnight. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 168; Vividly colored rock monuments gave Colorado parks a strange beauty in snow — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 165 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Sudden heavy snowfall transformed the Colorado landscape overnight. #expands (0.85) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 168
• Mountain dawns transform the landscape into transcendent beauty that defies words #corroborates (0.82) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 111
• High-mountain light stages illusions no lowland landscape can produce #corroborates (0.78) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 139
• Vividly colored rock monuments gave Colorado parks a strange beauty in snow #exemplifies (0.72) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 165
• Plains sunrise produces a glowing orange band plus amethyst-lit mountains #qualifies (0.72) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 215