Sprague Lake reflection Rocky Mountain National Park Ceramic Art Tile

A shallow lake just off the Bear Lake Road, half a mile around on the boardwalk loop. Abner Sprague built it in the early 1900s by damming Glacier Creek behind his lodge, and the water held the mountain so well that the dude-ranch guests kept coming back. On a still morning before the wind picks up, the surface holds Hallett Peak and Flattop and the whole eastern wall of the Continental Divide a second time. That doubled range draws photographers up the road from Estes Park while it is still dark.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.