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I truly enjoy looking at your pics!

I especially like that third one down! From one artist to another, hats off! I think you are a very gifted photographer! I appreciate all your comments on my poems as well! You seem to also have a way with words...your pictures are very poetic in their own right and I enjoy your angles and the 'feel' of them! With love!

posted by gypsypoet1975 on January 23, 2009 at 4:06 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Yes indeed...

We can count on floods much more regularly than white Christmases, to be sure!  I hope you have everything you need at home, and don't have to dig out too many more times this winter!

I remember in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book called The Long Winter, during one particularly bad spell they were buried so deep that they tunneled through the snow to the barn to look after the animals.  They liked the protection of the tunnel!

posted by Ciel on January 21, 2009 at 2:22 AM | link to this | reply

Yes indeed...

You westsiders got hit hard with the flooding.  Over on the eastside I had snow up to my window sills after it slid off the roof, had to shovel out my front door three times.

posted by food4thought on January 20, 2009 at 10:18 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Does this river by any chance come out from under a glacier?

Yep--hence the term in the text 'glacial silt.'  Talked about it in one of the earlier posts, too: it makes the lakes it flows into a really amazing jade-like green/blue!

posted by Ciel on January 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM | link to this | reply

Yellowrose, I have to admit I am as enthralled by a river in flood

as by a good thunderstorm, or volcanoes going off...  but the older I get, the more I much prefer my natural disasters without casualties and loss on the human side.

posted by Ciel on January 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM | link to this | reply

Does this river by any chance come out from under a glacier?

White rives from under glaciers are called "glacier milk".It's the powder made when glaciers drag rocks across rocks under millions of tons of ice.

posted by majroj on January 19, 2009 at 6:04 AM | link to this | reply

Beautiful mountains...I should visit there one day. Rivers are grand but not when there flooding.

posted by yellowrose55 on January 19, 2009 at 4:56 AM | link to this | reply

Great pictures. I still haven't tried to put any pictures, but your photographs are so evocative of the mountains i love, I should really figure out how to put some up - though a camera and I don't always see eye to eye!! You are so obviously friends with your lens.

posted by goodwhisky on January 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM | link to this | reply

Another Ansel Adams; Ciel Adams??  Have you started contacting tourist bureaus yet??  Mal

posted by gapcohen on January 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM | link to this | reply

Ciel

Fab pictures, and that milky water is amazing...

posted by Nautikos on January 17, 2009 at 7:50 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Re: I have never seen a river so white.

I would love to see it!

posted by metalrat on January 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM | link to this | reply

Re: I have never seen a river so white.

Interestingly, when all that glacial silt hits a lake, it turns the water a peculiar milky blue-green.  I should drive up to Ashford one of these days, and get shots of the lake up that way.

posted by Ciel on January 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM | link to this | reply

I have never seen a river so white.

Excellent pics, Ciel. 

posted by metalrat on January 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM | link to this | reply

Wow!  Interesting and beautiful pictures.

posted by TAPS. on January 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM | link to this | reply

Troosha, happily, we are ourselves not in a flood zone.

And now the roads are open southwards, and eastwards, Seattleites are no longer feeling trapped!

The waters have actually gone down sooner than expected, I think.  And these several days of dry have been most helpful! 

posted by Ciel on January 15, 2009 at 11:58 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Beautiful Pictures

Thanks, Skye! 

posted by Ciel on January 15, 2009 at 11:56 AM | link to this | reply

Ciel

Although not as badly as in your area, we’ve been experiencing some flooding and mudslides here in B.C. as well  resulting in many road/highway closures . Freaky weather this year – at least for the west coast anyway.   Wonderful photos, as always....

posted by Troosha on January 15, 2009 at 9:29 AM | link to this | reply

Beautiful Pictures

  

posted by skye08 on January 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM | link to this | reply