A crystal-clear lake in Grand Teton National Park holds the early light of spring, reflecting the vast blues of sky and mountain alike. Snow-laced peaks take on the color of the heavens, dissolving the boundary between above and below. Within this field of blue, a single summit breaks into the first signs of seasonal return—a sudden bloom of color rising from stone and thaw. The moment is one of emergence rather than spectacle. Winter has not fully released its hold, yet life answers anyway. This image honors that quiet threshold, when the landscape shifts from stillness toward movement, and the earth begins to reveal what has been waiting beneath the cold.