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Maroon Bells autumn aspens Elk Range Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
Two maroon peaks at the head of a high valley west of Aspen, reflected in a lake too cold to swim in. The red is real: iron in the rock, set 300 million years before the Rockies pushed it up. In the last week of September the aspens that ring the lake all turn at once, and the road fills with cars before sunrise. The shuttle from Aspen Highlands lets you off at a half-mile meadow trail. Photographers come for the twenty minutes after dawn. Then the day belongs to the wind.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.