Mount Rainier Washington State

Greetings from Craig

These are recent views of Mount Rainier in Washington State, where I used to live.   The 14,500 ft. Mt.  Rainier  puts on a show from time to time and anyone who has seen it peeking out around Seattle will appreciate these pictures. I know people were pulling over on the freeway to take pictures, driving the state police and ET crazy.




This signals that a dry streak is about to come to an end and the Seattle drizzle is about to restart.



Those are called "lenticular clouds"  They're caused when the air flow is just right so when it flows over Mt. Rainier , the air gets pushed upward where it cools and condenses into clouds. Depending on how smooth the flow is, you can get some amazing clouds formations as we've seen so far today.  
It's usually a sign of rain within 24 hours because typically the moist flow that precedes a storm around here is the perfect set up for these clouds.





This one is from a friend in Gig  Harbor :

And one is a similar phenomenon over Mount St Helens :

A bit of natures' beauty! 

Fishy, Wishy

Swan hound

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He said She said

"Aisle of view," she said.
He (the gardener) said, " Isle of yew, too."
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Watching the trains at RBG

4th generation lookers
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Ugly duckling

Who ate the cat food?

This picture is not very clear. Our adopted cat Joey finally came out of hiding. At least we thought he did because the cat food we left on the verandah was disappearin
g each night. But why was the water in the water dish always muddy.

I said, raccoons are known to wash their food. There's been a raccoon eating the cat food.

No, No. It's the cat.
Well the cat started to come around, came in the house, ate some cat food. We even saw it eating out of the dish if we were still up and watching.

But last night, a creature with a mask and a striped tail showed up at the door.

Guess we'll try to control the table setting for the cat food.