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

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!!!

shrooms at Mt Rainier National Park

a footbridge

all photos taken with iPhone

near the hotsprings at Ohanapecosh

Box canyon..Mt Rainier National Park,

Douglas Fir

Box Canyon

Maidenhair Fern

Rainforest type stuff at Ohanapecosh Hot Springs

Steller Jay at Ohanapecosh at Mt Rainier

Welcome to Mt Rainier National Park!

Mt Rainier National Park, Ohanapecosh Campground

Shadow Forest

Rain Forest

Shrooms

Cedar, Western Red

Ohanapecosh campground yesterday .. Mt Rainier National Park

The Painting Process

In the process of painting and hopefully creating an unusual room.

This back bedroom needs help.

Probably requiring stenciling, and shutters, who knows?

I don't have a plan, just seat of my pants be ing.. like I live life..

I'll take you along, but warning, I may have periods of nothing happenning as I invent what I want..

Taking ideas tho? Will you send ideas my way? I like India and Moroccan designs.. etc.

Well here we go..

Will need special lighting, decorative shutters with a pierced pattern, stencils around the light on ceiling, and some stenciling on walls, maybe a purple wash on red wall?

New window coverings, maybe with Sari's?

Just a few ideas going round just now.

Soup Stock for Tomato Basil and Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup

Steam vegetables, puree, saute leeks, and garlic, fresh basil, add puree and spices salt , pepper, chicken broth, and divide into two batches. Add more chicken broth to one for Butternut soup, and to the other add tomatoes, and cream for a creamy basil tomato bisque..

Umm, how good is this for your body?

787 Dreamliner flies!!!

I think it was the first flight.. cool, I'm in the flight path, so I see them (planes) all the time, usually 777's. This was, I thought the 747 400 cargo plane, but I went out to look up,and it was the 787 dreamliner!
Boeing is just over the hill from where I live. Here it is, altho the one that just flew was an all white dreamliner. No design paint yet I guess.