Lake Chelan and Stehekin under Snow

Stehekin Views including Beets.

Got my beets from Karl the organic farmer in Stehekin.

Six super sized beets made lots of pickled beets. 13 jars.

Missing Stehekin and wondering how it would be staying the winter and making pots during my stay.

I'd need a ton of clay.

Beautiful Lake Chelan

Stehekin, North Cascades National Park

The Dehaviland Beaver bush or seaplane.

Stehekin can only be accessed by air or water, by foot or horseback.

Pictured high above the 3rd largest lake ( Chelan ) in America. 1500' is depth of lake, I believe, at deepest.

The canyon is the deepest in America.

Natives lived here until this area was discovered by white men. It was taken for agriculture and sent natives to Coleville Reservation. A desert.

A valley used for growing fruit until recently when wineries have been put in.

This area surrounding Lake Chelan was the recent location for many forest fires in Washington state.

Some suzani from collection, yellow tulip suzani and yellow rose.

But I'm hoping to get out into nature again soon. Snow or rain forest. 

Maybe Vancouver, or wave watching in a storm. 

Meanwhile staying warm at home ...

Yellow roses...

I miss Summertime, but I'm falling into autumn...finally... so beautiful..corn lily is on the way out, but mushrooms are on the way in..

I love to find them pushing out of the ground, all dirty, and shrugging off their earthiness..such power and determination..

Below is the Chicken of the Woods, found at Rialto Beach one year. It had to be more than 50 lbs of mushroom, in perfect fresh condition. I didn't know then that it was edible. I may go looking for it again.

A leaf pattern tree of life suzani celebrates fall 

and...colors pop to life before diving into a restful season..

Below, The Corn Lily in regal black and white, has shed it's poisonousness, and said, goodnight..

Another Beautiful Weekend...

Lake Chelan

70 miles long....

A boat trip or flight down the river..

My pilot.. and sea plane an 

Otter.. de Havilland

Stehekin and Lake Chelan

Recent Adventure...

Into a beautiful remote location. 

de Havilland Otter

BOO!

It's that time of year when spiders and goblins appear. 

Enjoy what is! 

The giant pumpkin was pruned back but a cutting took root in the compost pile. 

A shroom that likes my yard..last year it had a heart carved in it, just for me!

Palin's a role model Now???

Lake Chelan
GrayJays in the North Cascades
AKA camp robbers, video


I have to campaigne until Obama is elected. lol
An Alaska Paper embraces Obama, Not McCain /Palin, saying Palin is not ready to be VP.
McCain is too old and unhealthy, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
You all know the issues, so I don't have to go there, but please vote and vote for progress, for the environment , because with no environment, we have no need for economy! Vote for Obama.
Obama is about; values, progress, honesty, integrity, and
compassion, as well as peace and a strong economy.

McCain is about wealth, greed, power, money , and position. Old guard..

My current rant..
McCain says:
"Americans right now care about whether they're going to stay in their homes, whether they're going to have a job, whether they're going to be able to keep their health insurance, if we're going to come out of this ditch that we're in," McCain added. "They want change. They want reform. She is a role model to millions and millions and millions of Americans."

How Is Palin a role model? What eviction does she face? She is paid for being governor of Alaska and is safe to spend all her time campiagning for VP.

Wouldn't you like to look for a job, all the while getting paid for doing nothing? If you don't get the new job, you still have your old one, too.
So yeah, they all do it, so what do they know about risk?

When they retire, those republicans get social security just like a democrat that is supposed to be lazy, and wanting a hand out.
If a Republican gets a pink slip, do they turn down their unemployment?
(I have never taken a dollar from the government). And yes, I could have.

Anyway, all politicians get amazing protections.

On Palin clothes, it is suggested that it isn't important to talk about her clothes because we face so many problems.
So because we are having economical problems we should ignore integrity when we are looking to vote for a Presidential, VP candidate?

From Alaska a quote from Palin as mayor..
"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council.

Palin Quotes.. (our heroine?) get links here:
links to videos etc.
1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008

3. "Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

4. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

6. "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." –Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip)

7. "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co," July 31, 2008 (Watch video clip)

8. "[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip)

9. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it

10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman