Topaz Lake is one of those places that I rarely plan on being at when the light is best, but I often find myself there anyway as I make my way between Tahoe, Mono Lake, and Monitor and Ebbetts passes.
On this morning I was there in time to watch a nicely shaped Sierra Wave lenticular cloud gradually light up from orange to pink to white, and I stayed long enough to watch the warm morning sunlight slide down the foothills to the lake.
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Wow! What a great stack of lenticular clouds - and a wonderful photograph of the phenomenon.
Thanks Dan, As I was deciding whether or not to go shoot, I was afraid that the generally clear and "boring" blue sky would challenge me to produce anything really interesting, but it's a good thing I kept an open mind and got up to shoot anyway!