A couple of Flickr Slideshows

Flickr recently changed the format of its website, and one of the parts that seems to have changed is the slideshow feature. I can no longer find the link to embed slideshows, so I dug up the html from an older post, one with the Star Dieppe arriving on the Budd Waterway, and used that as a template to post a couple shows of most recent sets, one from a hike to Lower Lena Lake, and another from the Peace Vigil last Friday, where there were dense, dark, dramatic clouds.



Lena Lake Trail May 2013



2013 May 24 Peace Vigil at Percival Landing



MV Star Dieppe Arrival and Docking Alongside Port of Olympia Marine Terminal Pier (as previously posted on OlyBlog)

Timber!

Original Size Version of this photo (+links to more photos of clearcuts and forests) below the fold...

Natural resources, what's the cost, what is gained, what is lost? What's it gonna look like in the end? Will the trees be all gone? Will we be blowing in the wind? Hey Mr. Business Man, where you get all those trees, owning them and selling them, how, how, how, now?!

Photo Essay

I was looking for a photo in my flickr stream, and came across a few from 2010 springtime. I also came across others from different times.

Not all of these are necessarily directly related, some are just interesting ones, and it is in three parts.


101 North on the 20th of March, convertibles with tops down


Where the trail used to go at Nisqually WLR

On the Program

I was on the Your Daily Hour With Me TCTV program a couple weeks ago, on the second of May, the program includes some footage of the MV Star Dieppe, a cargo ship arrival in Budd Inlet to deliver to the Port of Olympia ceramic proppants for fracking. That episode is one hour in length, and is posted to the internet on YouTube here.

I was on the program again today 20130515 (Wednesday 15 May.) After turning on the tapes we talked for about an hour about various topics, including religion and politics, psychology and ecology, industry and environment, wealth and poverty. It felt good, we had some laughs, and despite a couple of technical difficulties, we made a few phone calls, including to Elder Gordon and Elder Hill, Missionaries with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I had fun. That program is scheduled to air in a week from now, on Wednesday the 22nd of May, at 11:30pm on TCTV Channel 22.

Here the video from the 2nd of May is also embedded in this here blog post:

Mountain Photos (and other)

I was looking through my photos on Flickr for a couple reasons, one of them to find ones of the Olympic Mountains as seen from Olympia. I want to find the names of the prominent peaks of the Olympic Mountains, as they can be seen from Olympia.

Here are a few of the photos I came across, some more recent, some less recent.


Branches


Olympics on Budd Bay (see below the fold for a larger version)


Mall


Lee Horse Logger


Untitled


Waxing Crescent (Moon)


Sunset through trees

A Smorgasbord of Photos

I was looking for a photo from a couple years ago, of corn, to share with fellow-gardeners, (because I am thinking about growing corn this year,) and I came across a bunch of photos from July, August, and September 2011... Here are a few that caught my eye. A sort of what was and what is, and what yet again may be. I hope these images may bring you some peace, as they have brought to me:


Glacier National Park Mountain Majesty

Trees

Two photos of trees. The first is from Mount Rainier National Park, the mountain also known as Tahoma, and 'ti'swaq. It's from the Eastside of the park, near Ohanapecosh:


This second photo is from the Bigelow Highlands Neighborhood of Olympia, WA. It is of trees in Bigelow Park, at night, a 30 second exposure.


There are more photos from that September 2009 trip to the mountain here

Strummin' Guitar

This video gives a rough idea of about where my guitar playin' skills are these days:

Two Photos

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Is the fossil fuel industry a criminal racket?

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Is the fossil fuel industry a criminal racket? What do you think? #eco #petroleum #law

— Robert F W Whitlock (@berdww) April 10, 2013