What's next: Views beneath the surface
Wednesday 2010 10 20 Cloudy, misty, water tank at 10 feet. More than a year ago a winter wind pushed over a 60′ double trunked Douglas fir, the shorter, dead trunk jamming itself into a big, ill-formed alder, with the longer, living, trunk and crown nearly hitting the roof of well house #2, but distracted … Read more Perfect Windfall
Tuesday 2010 10 19 For more than a year I had my eye on a pile of tree trunks near well house #1 on Crane Island common area. With our F-150 pickup temporarily on the island, it made sense to consider cutting them into 16″ sections and bringing them back to the house, about ¼ … Read more Scavenging Firewood
Many times during the last ice age catastrophic floods unleashed by failing ice dams that created Lake Missoula in Montana raged across central Washington in waves 700’ high, scouring out canyons, redirecting rivers, creating huge scablands and moving huge Rocky Mountain boulders hundreds of miles west, some into the upper Willamette Valley in Oregon. J. … Read more Ice Age Floods and Steamboat Rock