There are perhaps a disproportionate number of 'blue sky day' photos in this collection. But this panorama captures a typical Glacier Bay day in April: cloudy and cold with muted colors and snow down to the waterline. In these conditions a colorful hiking jacket becomes an important point of reference. Intertidal areas in the early spring are perhaps a low point in the 'color' factor at Glacier Bay. Later the muted patches of green and orange-colored algae will perk up and expand. The snow will melt and the upper intertidal grasses will flush out, and the bordering alder shrubs will become a line of light green that matures to a dark green before turning brown and falling off. Along the way there will be some blue-sky days and hopefully we'll be lucky enough to capture a few. Photographer: Bill Eichenlaub