Fishers to Sauk City. Visited Uncle Dan and family. Saw Gret's new house and stopped in Mauston at Mom's condo.
Camping in Oakdale, WI. 
Monday, September 2, 2013
Hillsboro ND
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Sunday in Seattle
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Some sun, Sunday, and Seattle...what a great combination! We knew parking in the city would be difficult, so we got an early start. Tom found a free Sunday parking lot just down the street from the Seattle Aquarium.
Clouds...but no rain!
The Space Needle
The Seattle Aquarium - This was a great introduction to the sea life of the Northwest.
Sea Stars at the tide pool exhibit.
Green anemone - This is a hands on area, and I was able to feed the anemone. They grab the food with their sticky arms.
The large sea star is called a sun flower sea star.
Which way is up?
We saw the J Pod Orca Whales on our whale watching trip in Victoria.
Sea Pens
Urchins
Variety of corals
Salmon swimming up stream
The colors...wow!
This diver spotted me watching the morning feeding. Hello...
May the Octopus - In a few months she will be returned to Puget Sound.
Sea Otters playing
Puget Sound
Street along the Pike Place Market
Our parking spot was about four flights down. I returned to the unit to get Tom's hat, and I spotted him snapping a picture from above.
Starbucks
Pike Place Market vendors
The Pike Place Fish Company - home of the flying fish and the FISH philosophy.
Rachel the pig - Pike Place Market mascot
The Gum Wall...art or litter?
Puget Sound
Sculpture Park
Calder's sculpture, Eagle, and the Space Needle
The dogs enjoyed the stroll along the waterfront.
Clam chowder, fish tacos, and a cold one...very nice.
We covered two big attractions, the waterfront and Pike Place Market, but there is so much more to see in Seattle. A return visit is on our to do list.
Some sun, Sunday, and Seattle...what a great combination! We knew parking in the city would be difficult, so we got an early start. Tom found a free Sunday parking lot just down the street from the Seattle Aquarium.
Clouds...but no rain!
The Space Needle
The Seattle Aquarium - This was a great introduction to the sea life of the Northwest.
Sea Stars at the tide pool exhibit.
Green anemone - This is a hands on area, and I was able to feed the anemone. They grab the food with their sticky arms.
The large sea star is called a sun flower sea star.
Which way is up?
We saw the J Pod Orca Whales on our whale watching trip in Victoria.
Sea Pens
Urchins
Variety of corals
Salmon swimming up stream
The colors...wow!
This diver spotted me watching the morning feeding. Hello...
May the Octopus - In a few months she will be returned to Puget Sound.
Sea Otters playing
Puget Sound
Street along the Pike Place Market
Our parking spot was about four flights down. I returned to the unit to get Tom's hat, and I spotted him snapping a picture from above.
Starbucks
Pike Place Market vendors
The Pike Place Fish Company - home of the flying fish and the FISH philosophy.
Rachel the pig - Pike Place Market mascot
The Gum Wall...art or litter?
Puget Sound
Sculpture Park
Calder's sculpture, Eagle, and the Space Needle
The dogs enjoyed the stroll along the waterfront.
Clam chowder, fish tacos, and a cold one...very nice.
We covered two big attractions, the waterfront and Pike Place Market, but there is so much more to see in Seattle. A return visit is on our to do list.
Location:Seattle, Washington
Monday, October 10, 2011
Mount St.Helens National Volcanic Monument
I can still vividly remember the morning of May 18, 1980, when after several months of rumbling and threatening, Mount St. Helen's blew it's top, sending over a thousand feet of its peak and much of the north face of the mountain into the air in an explosion of unimaginable force. Everything in it's path was destroyed by the combination of heat and winds.
Mount St. Helens before eruption
Mount St. Helens after eruption
Quick summary of what happened that day taken from my National Park guide.
Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of Mount St. Helens collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. In a few moments this slab of rock and ice slammed into Spirit Lake, crossed a ridge 1,300 feet high, and roared 14 miles down the Toutle River. The avalanche rapidly released pressurized gases within the volcano. A tremendous lateral explosion ripped through the avalanche and developed into a turbulent, stone-filled wind that swept over ridges and toppled trees. Nearly 150 square miles of forest were blown over or left dead and standing. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. Wet, cement-like slurries of rock and mud scoured all sides of the volcano. Searing flows of pumice poured from the crater. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments. A vast, gray landscape lay where once the forested slopes of Mount St. Helens grew. In 1982 the President and Congress created the 110,000-acre National Volcanic Monument for research, recreation, and education. Inside the Monument, the environment is left to respond naturally to the disturbance.
The trees look like tooth picks strewn across the surrounding areas.
Here you can see the effects of the pyroplastic flow.
Johnston Ridge Observatory...more clouds!
The destruction is still clearly evident, but signs of life are rapidly reappearing in the fertile land that the volcano left behind.
I think to truly see what immense power must have been unleashed that morning, you have to see Mount St. Helens in person.
Mount St. Helens before eruption
Mount St. Helens after eruption
Quick summary of what happened that day taken from my National Park guide.
Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of Mount St. Helens collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. In a few moments this slab of rock and ice slammed into Spirit Lake, crossed a ridge 1,300 feet high, and roared 14 miles down the Toutle River. The avalanche rapidly released pressurized gases within the volcano. A tremendous lateral explosion ripped through the avalanche and developed into a turbulent, stone-filled wind that swept over ridges and toppled trees. Nearly 150 square miles of forest were blown over or left dead and standing. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. Wet, cement-like slurries of rock and mud scoured all sides of the volcano. Searing flows of pumice poured from the crater. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments. A vast, gray landscape lay where once the forested slopes of Mount St. Helens grew. In 1982 the President and Congress created the 110,000-acre National Volcanic Monument for research, recreation, and education. Inside the Monument, the environment is left to respond naturally to the disturbance.
The trees look like tooth picks strewn across the surrounding areas.
Here you can see the effects of the pyroplastic flow.
Johnston Ridge Observatory...more clouds!
The destruction is still clearly evident, but signs of life are rapidly reappearing in the fertile land that the volcano left behind.
I think to truly see what immense power must have been unleashed that morning, you have to see Mount St. Helens in person.
Location:Johnston Ridge Observatory
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