Showing posts with label Mount Rainier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mount Rainier. Show all posts

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Mystery Solved

Every morning at 7 AM I hear a very loud echoing "eee-YOW. eee-YOW. eee-YOW!" I'm thinking to myself, hurt cat? hawk in hunt mode? what?

This morning looking out my back window I discovered the source of the caterwauling.
Those peacocks go right along with the pony that herds a cow around in the field next to the campground. That pony dogs that poor cow like a border collie dogs a lamb. It's too funny.

Okay, for the next picture we'll play guess where we are? Texas? New Mexico? Arizona?
No indeed! We're in central Washington south of Ellensburg on Interstate 82. Not how you envision the state of Washington, is it?

Okay, how about this?

Yep, that's more like it. Rimrock Lake along WA-12.

Of course, there's always the iconic Mt. Rainier, also seen from WA-12 east of the National Park.

The temperature outside was 84 degrees when I took this from the truck as we were en route to our destination in Randle. It always amazes me to see snow on mountains when it's so hot outside.

Scenically, it was a great drive getting from Quincy to Randle. The roads varied in elevation from 700 feet to 4500 feet along the way with a few areas of high crosswinds along the way. Of course Black Beauty and the Beast take all of that in stride.

Here instead of columnar basalt there are striations in the rock. I believe this was in the Naches area along WA-12. I love all the variations in the lava flows and rock formations all over the country. I should have paid more attention in geology. Sigh.


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