Photographs Mt. Ranier, from Seattle

[OhFarouk]

'...really scenic state', that is.

 

[Sparkey]

Looks like someone photoshopped a mountain into a city skyline shot.
Seriously it looks unreal.:

no, it does that. sparrow knows. I have seen that mountain every day like that for years. its actually a dormant volcano.

Indeed. Sometimes while just driving around and minding my own business I would round a corner and look up.

There! Breathtakingly beautiful & majestic Mt. Rainier would appear. There are too many "I-wish-I-had-my-camera moments."

~Sparrow

 

[OhFarouk]

Indeed. Sometimes while just driving around and minding my own business I would round a corner and look up.

There! Breathtakingly beautiful & majestic Mt. Rainier would appear. There are too many "I-wish-I-had-my-camera moments."

~Sparrow

I know; I've had too many of those moments.

Truly our Creator is glorious.

Blessings.

 

[Claudya]

no, it does that. sparrow knows. I have seen that mountain every day like that for years. its actually a dormant volcano.

If that's a dormant volcano so close to a big city as Seattle imagine the fun that would ensue when the volcano ceases to be dormant. :stomp

 

[OhFarouk]

If that's a dormant volcano so close to a big city as Seattle imagine the fun that would ensue when the volcano ceases to be dormant. :stomp

...a bit like Berlin in 1945...?

 

[Sparkey]

There is a three hour drive between where I live now and the Mt. Rainier National Park. Up here (near Canada) another dormant strato-volcano is seen: Mt. Baker. Not as majestic perhaps but it too could erupt. We live in an area called "The Rim of Fire." Many do.

Since I don't believe in the millions and/or billions of years theory there is less comfort due to the short time distance injected between me and previous eruptions. While taking a Geology Class this last spring we went on a field trip and considered the Geologic Timescale, the formation of mountains and glaciers as well as how our beloved "Puget Sound" may come into its existence.

I can certainly see the need to put distance between us and those natural events. What could happen? Only God knows. Trusting Him is a daily occurrence no matter our belief about timelines.

Cordially,
Sparrow

P.S. For those interested here are some links to the Great Pacific Northwest from reputable sites:
Burke Museum: Northwest Origins
USGS: Visit a Volcano
Tulane University, Prof. Stephen A. Nelson: Volcanoes and Volcanic Eruptions​

 

[OhFarouk]

There is a three hour drive between where I live now and the Mt. Rainier National Park. Up here (near Canada) another dormant strato-volcano is seen: Mt. Baker. Not as majestic perhaps but it too could erupt. We live in an area called "The Rim of Fire." Many do.

Since I don't believe in the millions and/or billions of years theory there is less comfort due to the short time distance injected between me and previous eruptions. While taking a Geology Class this last spring we went on a field trip and considered the Geologic Timescale, the formation of mountains and glaciers as well as how our beloved "Puget Sound" may come into its existence.

I can certainly see the need to put distance between us and those natural events. What could happen? Only God knows. Trusting Him is a daily occurrence no matter our belief about timelines.

Cordially,
Sparrow

Kind of like Professor Oppenheimer tinkering with a fuse in the Nevada Desert in 1945, right?

Blessings.

 

[jasoncran]

uh, not like the west coast. when I was with my army unit moving to ft.polk. we had to move gear via seaload and rail load. we had protesters at the port of Tacoma. they had signs that said military industrial complex. all this was part of the DOWNSizing of the army then. and William Jefferson Clinton was president.

 

[OhFarouk]

uh, not like the west coast. when I was with my army unit moving to ft.polk. we had to move gear via seaload and rail load. we had protesters at the port of Tacoma. they had signs that said military industrial complex. all this was part of the DOWNSizing of the army then. and William Jefferson Clinton was president.

jasoncran:

Here's a good answer to such protesters:

'Someone has to defend your right to demonstrate.'

Blessings.

PS: You should see the Canadian military; just how small its budgets are, year after year.

 

[jasoncran]

jasoncran:

Here's a good answer to such protesters:

'Someone has to defend your right to demonstrate.'

Blessings.

PS: You should see the Canadian military; just how small its budgets are, year after year.

im familiar with your military. I do talk to a former member of the Canadian air force. she was medically discharged.

 

[Barbarian]

Sparrow was pretty close. I was on a ferry, just about to dock. Long telephoto. No photoshopping at all, just a lot of work cutting down the haze to get more detail.

 

[OhFarouk]

im familiar with your military. I do talk to a former member of the Canadian air force. she was medically discharged.

There are some really great folk in the Canadian Forces. (The separate services have been integrated together as one military service.) Women are getting well integrated, too.

BC looks quite similar to Mount Rainier in places...

Blessings.

 

[jasoncran]

There are some really great folk in the Canadian Forces. (The separate services have been integrated together as one military service.) Women are getting well integrated, too.

BC looks quite similar to Mount Rainier in places...

Blessings.

I have been to Victoria, Brittish Columbia.

 

[Barbarian]

The five great volcanic mountains in the Pacific Northwest look similar, because they are similar. They are made of subducted crust that melted and broke through overlaying crust. They tend to erupt in violent Plinian eruptions that make those nice, symmetrical cones. Usually. Mt. St. Helens developed a fault that blew out the side of the mountain and wrecked the symmetry.

 

[OhFarouk]

The five great volcanic mountains in the Pacific Northwest look similar, because they are similar. They are made of subducted crust that melted and broke through overlaying crust. They tend to erupt in violent Plinian eruptions that make those nice, symmetrical cones. Usually. Mt. St. Helens developed a fault that blew out the side of the mountain and wrecked the symmetry.

You mean a BC mountain might start smoking, Winston Churchill-style?

 

[OhFarouk]

There is a three hour drive between where I live now and the Mt. Rainier National Park. Up here (near Canada) another dormant strato-volcano is seen: Mt. Baker. Not as majestic perhaps but it too could erupt. We live in an area called "The Rim of Fire." Many do.

Since I don't believe in the millions and/or billions of years theory there is less comfort due to the short time distance injected between me and previous eruptions. While taking a Geology Class this last spring we went on a field trip and considered the Geologic Timescale, the formation of mountains and glaciers as well as how our beloved "Puget Sound" may come into its existence.

I can certainly see the need to put distance between us and those natural events. What could happen? Only God knows. Trusting Him is a daily occurrence no matter our belief about timelines.

Cordially,
Sparrow

P.S. For those interested here are some links to the Great Pacific Northwest from reputable sites:
Burke Museum: Northwest Origins
USGS: Visit a Volcano
Tulane University, Prof. Stephen A. Nelson: Volcanoes and Volcanic Eruptions​

PS: Sparrowhawke: Did you know that former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is into volcanoes? he is closely involved in a volcano interpretive centre in a mountainous area of France.

Blessings.

 

[Sparkey]

Mt. St. Helens developed a fault that blew out the side of the mountain and wrecked the symmetry.

Grabbed a picture from the Creative Commons at WIKI for the sister of Mt. Rainier known as "Mount Saint Helens"

 

[OhFarouk]

Grabbed a picture from the Creative Commons at WIKI for the sister of Mt. Rainier known as "Mount Saint Helens"

Kind of makes me think more of Iceland or the Himalayas rather than the United States...

Blessings.

 

[Barbarian]

From Johnson's Ridge

Approaching from the West. Voigtlander Perkeo, using 120 film.

 

[OhFarouk]

Barbarian: Great photos! so is this Wash. state? it seems rather arid.