In 2009, I took a family trip with my husband, mom, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, and two close family friends, Collin and Kathy Staley to Glacier National Park. It was a bittersweet trip-the last one we were able to take with Collin, who was undergoing chemo at the time, but the first of many we were able to take with my father-in-law who was recovering from colon cancer. Taking an Amtrak train along the northern US, we arrived in Glacier National Park and spent our first few nights in Many Glacier Lodge. The first morning we awoke to a fresh couple of inches of snow–in June! It was magical and breathtaking and cemented my love of the national parks. I dug into some of my old photographs of that first morning at sunrise and did this little oil painting.