A friend of mine recently sold her house and moved into a condo in downtown Austin. Her view is amazing.
Tag: panorama
Afternoon excursion.
We dashed out to Mayfield Park today to see the peacocks and the pretty grounds, found a geocache, and then climbed atop Mount Bonnell to enjoy the view.
A nice day, indeed.
A few more pics from Seattle.
In the summer, sunset seems to linger for a very long time in Seattle. This is a shot I took from the ferry on the way home from the game. It must have been about 9:30pm. In this wide panorama you can still see the glow of the sun past the horizon on the left…the city lights including the space needle, the great wheel, and both century link and safeco stadium…and the rising supermoon on the right.
I’ve gotten tired of trying to guess which side of Mt Rainier we’ll fly by on my return flights to Austin. So, I just kept the seat that I was assigned – window on the left side. I got lucky this time and we flew north-to-south past the western face of this great mountain, turning to the southeast as we passed it.
The haze nestled amongst the surrounding foothills is smoke from the ongoing fires in Central Washington. A couple of factoids: Mt Rainier is a volcano; elevation of 14,410′; last recorded eruption was in the 1st half of the 1800’s; home to 26 major glaciers and many ice fields; 6 rivers have glaciers on Mt Rainier as their source. Read more here.
We flew very close to the summit. In this shot of the western face, you can see Sunset Amphitheater on the left and Tahoma Glacier on the right. The black ring on the top right of the dome is the volcanic crater. The summit, Columbia Crest is along that black ring.
Breathtaking.
Memorial Day.
Wow! The weekend has zoomed by!
Today we headed over to Noreen’s to celebrate Memorial Day. On the way we stopped by the cemetery to put a flag and flowers on Dad’s grave. Cheers, Dad!
We spent the day together: Noreen, Jared & Kelsey; Fran, Art, Rebecca, & Aaron (& Jojo); Colleen & Jake; Monte, Mom & me. Brian was down with the flu, so he and Gail will have to join us another time. It was another amazingly beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest when it was really supposed to be raining.
Jared and Kelsey cooked up the burgers & dogs, and we put out all the fixings; we also had halibut that Art caught just a day ago off the Washington coast. Delicious. Afterwards most of us headed down the road for a hike to the beach. Wow, that sure was steep! We found one of the 2 geocaches we searched for along the way.
This is a panarama, looking west to the Olympics, of the beautiful beach along Hood Canal at the bottom of our 1 mile, downhill, switchback-y hike. Becca and Aaron are skipping stones and Jojo is splashing around.
Then we turned around and slogged up the way we came down and were all extremely happy when we made it back to the upper trail head. Whew-ie!!
Werking (from home).
Now that I’ve found panorama mode on the iPhone, I’m going to play around with it. I am not yet sure of the optimal settings to display panoramas on wordpress.com wrt image size and resolution, but I’ll have to experiment to see what my options are. Here is my view this Monday morning. Well, my everyday view, really. Here goes:
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