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Showing posts with label MT Rainier National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MT Rainier National Park. Show all posts

7.9.11

Yesterdays Home



This small brown bear was about 20' off the road going to Shadow Lake. He
followed us munching on flowers, then went down the mountain.
We came upon him again down at some meadows still chomping his way down.
 Not much food this year for bears to get ready for winter.

The wild flowers

29.11.09

A walk in the woods at Mt Rainier

This is what heaven looks like.....

All taken with iphone

Not great, but I was here..

The woods are alive and colorful, and wet..

A fox played hide and seek with me....

Freddy the fox and some plant life at the mountain..

Mt Rainier.

Snow of about 5' at Paradise, but it was continually wet by rain fall.

This is my friend the silver fox.. we played peek a boo.. he was very curious and hungry,,

Obviously people have been feeding him.


Inside the visitors center. Looking out..

23.9.09

Mt Rainier and me

Some mushroom like fungi on a tree at ..
Found on a hike at Mt Rainier near Carbonara entrance.
Sweet Alpine Lake with a view of the mountain as a setting..
and me..

20.9.09

Mushrooms of Mt Rainier


Tree Beard?
Most of the giant red cedars were reduced to bloody stumps!
These trees were a marvel, not just to look at but to preserve
our very lives via production of oxygen for the planet, but also flood control and ozone control, etc.
LIke the busy bees, they served us for free, and we in our
ignorance thought we could make better use
of them for temporary concerns, and for
some demented kind of wealth for some greedy folks.
more shrooms

I'm coming through!!!

I look tasty huh?

Nothing gets in my way!



Sword fern

19.9.09

Trees of Mt Rainier, and other the Mountain...


Bones of the Mother

This grassy stuff grows near a hot spring that oozes chemicals.. hmm?

Box Canyon at 115 ft here, so if a Douglas Fir or a Western Red Cedar were at the bottom,
full grown they would tower over by 85 ft.
That's perspective..
A Western Red grows 6 ft a year, and consumes 600 gallons of water a day!
These monster trees that were mostly taken out a long time ago
were like giant generators or processors that purified our air, and were efficient for flood control.
The Oxygen in the woods is incredible, and it's good to realize that our oxygen
levels are way down compared to 100 years ago..
People need oxygen.
Cancer is on the rise, partly due to lower levels of oxygen.


The Mountain!
14410 ft. above sea level

she's a volcano so don't make her mad!

Douglas Fir grow to about 200 ft. The bark is very deeply rutted.




A Cedar has fallen into a Douglas Fir..

waaaay up there!!!

18.9.09

shrooms at Mt Rainier National Park

a footbridge



all photos taken with iPhone

near the hotsprings at Ohanapecosh

17.9.09

Box canyon..Mt Rainier National Park,

Douglas Fir

Box Canyon

Maidenhair Fern


Rainforest type stuff at Ohanapecosh Hot Springs