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Post by RickW on Jan 4, 2009 20:08:07 GMT -5
Borrowed a nice camera from a friend. Woke up this morning to see the old volcano we can from our deck looking rather spectacular:  |
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Post by TDR on Jan 4, 2009 20:25:30 GMT -5
Nice.
The old saying goes, "red sky come night, sailor's delight. Red sky come morning, sailors take warning". Do you have a weather system moving in?
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Post by RickW on Jan 4, 2009 20:33:07 GMT -5
We seem to have had a continuous weather system moving through for the last 2 weeks. We almost always get our weather from west, the ocean. Unless we're getting arctic air from the interior, which we have been getting for the past two weeks.
We get a continuous flow of stuff moving through. It's pretty well a constant parade of systems. Vancouver is somewhat like Ireland - 'If you don't like the weather, wait a minute.'
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Post by TDR on Jan 4, 2009 20:42:59 GMT -5
Yup, I'm a few hundred miles south of you in central Oregon. We've had a lot of the same, except less arctic stuff.
Good snow on the hill, plenty freeze and thaw down here at 4000'.
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Post by sekhmet on Jan 4, 2009 21:10:28 GMT -5
What a terrific view!!
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Post by RickW on Jan 4, 2009 21:18:47 GMT -5
We're ecstatic with what we see, Sek. It's such a beautiful place. Our house we moved from, our kitchen window looked at our neighbour's mouldy siding. We get great light in here, looking out east and south, and that view. I just love sitting staring at the sky, we get a wide expanse of it.
I'm learning how to use this camera. Got a long ways to go. But the mountain changes so much, I've been itching for something to take pictures.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 4, 2009 21:21:02 GMT -5
It must be absolutely lovely to see that every day, Rick. And with that picture, it looks like it makes all of that snow worth it.
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Post by RickW on Jan 4, 2009 21:32:36 GMT -5
I wouldn't go that far, VI, to say it makes the snow worth it. Baker is so tall, it always has snow. You can ski it in the summer time. I currently have mounds about 6 feet tall on either side of my driveway - something much of the rest of the universe is used to, but not us. Supposed to start raining tomorrow.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 4, 2009 21:39:26 GMT -5
You'll be shocked at how fast the rain melts the snow.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 5, 2009 0:04:11 GMT -5
Was this a scene from Lord of the Rings ?
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Post by HarmonEyes on Jan 5, 2009 1:04:05 GMT -5
Gorgeous picture, Rick!
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Post by RickW on Jan 5, 2009 1:05:35 GMT -5
I know - it's cool, isn't it, the long black shadow streaming off the peak. Had not seen that one before. Just where the sun was, and how the clouds were. Expecting to see black figures flying around the cone?
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Post by sekhmet on Jan 5, 2009 7:41:16 GMT -5
I'm looking for many updates on Mount Baker. If you could use a tripod and put it in the same place every time, and take a photo every day ... what a cool slideshow that would be after about four months! If I lived in your house I would do precisely that.  What's it look like today? |
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Post by t-bob on Jan 5, 2009 9:25:15 GMT -5
I used to see that mountain from my house in Bellingham, WA many many moons ago. Then I moved a little south and got a view of Mt. Rainier. Now I see Mt. Tamalpais, a dinky little 2600' thing. Great picture of Mt. Baker!
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Post by RickW on Jan 5, 2009 10:31:50 GMT -5
Dunno, Sek - unfortunately, I'm back at work - and I leave before the sun comes up. I'll be checking on work at home days, and on the weekends....
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Post by omaha on Jan 5, 2009 10:55:01 GMT -5
Damn.
I'm from Nebraska. Someone needs to explain to me what that tall thing is sticking up in the background.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Jan 5, 2009 11:26:05 GMT -5
Doesn't matter. You can see Russia from Nebraska.
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