Autumn grasses turn gold in morning light along Saint Mary Lake beneath the Lewis Range in Glacier National Park. The basin which holds Saint Mary Lake was gouged out during the Pleistocene Epoch by a huge valley glacier which originated high on the sides of Mount Jackson and Logan Pass less than fifteen miles upstream from this location. 8881' Red Eagle Mountain rises above the morning mist at the top right of this photograph captured during early October when the cottonwoods and grasses along the lake have taken on their autumn hues. The pointed summit of 8792' Split Mountain rises in the center of the image. 15,000 years ago, the center of Glacier National Park was a vast icecap spilling glaciers far out onto the Great Plains. All photos in these galleries may be ordered as fine art black & white framed prints or for stock photography usage.