Olympic Mountains seen from Budd Bay in Olympia

Global Water Dances Olympia

I have a couple new posts about the Global Water Dances 2011, Olympia. A couple photos here and video here. It was an awesome event: wonderful, magical, divine. We were blessed with great weather for the ceremony. So check it out. We even had a blue heron fly over at the start of the Global Water Dance. It was flapping strangely! A good omen perhaps.

Be well!

Nature Scenes!

A Question about Wealth and Privilege, and Oppression and Suffering

Let us ask whether our wealth and privilege depend on oppression and cause suffering.

Moon Over Capitol

People and public interest over profit. Schools not war. Government needs to STOP working for the advantage of some over others! General Strike! No school, no work, until government works for mutual benefit—for the public interest.

End corporate control!

[Thursday 17 March 2011
Olympia, Washington

The Legislative Building dome reflects on Capitol Lake. The Moon illuminates clouds in the sky.

Make sure to check out this blog entry about the 17 March 2011 Rally to Protect Our Future: olyblog.net/photos-todays-rally

Stop the cutting!]

Olympic Mountains in the Light of the Moon

Full Moon, Wednesday 19 January 2011
view larger: Olympic Mountains in the Light of the Full Moon, January 2011

Minnehaha Falls

I am in the City of Minneapolis right now. One of my favorite places in the city is Minnehaha Falls. Minneapolis has an extensive park system. It's one of the highlights of life here for many people. This afternoon the air was breezy, thin, cold, and dry, but the sky was clear (besides some atmospheric pollution in the form of haze.) The early winter sunlight was beautiful (probably even enhanced, ironically, by the pollution.)

Minnehaha creek feeds into the Mississippi river—not far from Minnehaha falls. Today the water was flowing, it was quite interesting to watch the flowing water disappear into a shell of ice.

I have memories from when I was a teenager of climbing behind the frozen ice of the falls.

Today, I thought I could hear some of the ice cracking.

I have heard that the City turns on municipal water supplies to feed the creek. I am not sure if that's the case currently (as seen in the following photos.) Anyway, the falls are an impressive sight.

Here are some photos of Minnehaha Falls in the winter. There are a few more posted on my Flickr site.


Trees and Trail

So much clean snow. Quite a wonder.


Trees and Sky


Frozen Minnehaha Falls in the Winter


Top of the Falls


Mom

Peace! Namaste! May All Beings be Happy!

Salish Summer

Morning Scene

Wednesday February 17, 2010
This is in Olympia Washington. The source of the smoke is likely the Sewage treatment plant.
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Percival Landing Panorama, February 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

This panorama is far from perfect, many of the seams are off. The color temperature is off. Perfection isn't the goal.

Whoa were there some awesome clouds today!

view full size (11 MB 30,000 x 4,111): Percival Landing Panorama 20100224

Olympic Mountains over the Puget Sound, seen from Budd Bay, Olympia, Washington

Moonglow, City Glow, Clouds and the Sound

October 2009
Eld Inlet, Olympia, Washington

The clouds are lit from beneath by city light - presumably from the Tacoma/Gig Harbor region of the Puget Sound. Interesting how pollution can actually cause incredibly beautiful scenes, sometimes.

http://peacepotential.blogspot.com/2010/02/moonglow-city-glow-clouds-and-sound.html

Reflection, Lights on the Bay

Olympia Harbor in 1856

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Washington did not become a state until 1889. Washington was the 42nd state to become part of the United States.

In 1856, over 30 years prior to Washington becoming a state, the landscape around Olympia was very different than it is today, in 2010.

I imagine that the environment was much healthier back then, with great flocks of wild birds, and a bounteous feast accessible for harvest from the waters of the Salish Sea.

Woodard Bay Madrona

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Getty Museum Water Feature

This is at the Getty Museum, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
It's a multi-image composite, and it's from April 2009
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Olympic Mountains

I am not super keen on the thick border on this photo, but it's a pretty view of the mountains:

Olympic Mountains

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Sunset with Clouds

Bermuda, view larger: Dramatic Bermuda Sunset on the Ocean with Clouds

Priest Point Park

September 17, 2009

20 Second Exposure with Bright Moon