During the field research for my guidebook "Photographing Washington", I hiked many miles in the Cascade Range mountains of Washington. This photograph was taken on a frosty morning while hiking the Cutthroat Lake Trail in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.

Intimate landscapes and small scenes like this are my favourite genres of nature photography. I loved these frost-covered leaves' pattern, texture, and color and spent several minutes positioning my tripod to get just the right grouping and composition.