Sunset above Charrette Creek

I took this shot recently as the sun set behind a stand of dormant trees on a ridge above the valley below Lake Aspen dam. Below the trees is Charrette Creek, barely noticeable beneath a cold winter’s snow. During the Spring snowmelt and the Spring and Fall rainy seasons, the Lake Aspen spillway sends the overflow of a number of Innsbrook’s interlinked lakes into this stream, which flows southward until it empties into the Missouri River at Washington, Missouri.