Alistair goes bug hunting

Alistair went to Federation Forrest State Park today. He wanted to do some collecting and naturally brought home a bunch of bugs and dirt.


The nice, interesting thing he did this time, though, was to bring home some pictures. Only four, but WOW, they're great!!!! These aren't actually taken in the Federation Forrest State Park, they're taken about 10 miles away (south at about 10K feet). He wanted me to let everyone know that.


They need no other explanation.

The Great White Mountains

Here are some more pictures from our deck. I have a good lense, so we have some close ups!!!



This is a close up of Mount Rainier on a day with a great sunset. It turned the whole mountain pink!











On the same day we got REALLY LUCKY and got to see Mount St. Helens. Its the flat thing in the middle of the picture to the right of the church tower, and to the left of the buildings on the far right side of the picture.

These were taken in February. We haven't seen Mt. St. Helens since. . .

Views from our Deck!

Here's a picture of the Cascades from our
deck. It's looking South East. It's pretty
amazing. During the summer, there isn't
any snow, so this is a cool picture to see -
it's right before spring.














View of the Cascades from our Deck View of Mount Rainier in the size we usually see it.
There are television and radio towers across the street (south) and that's the red
structure.










This is the view when on our deck and you're looking East. The mountains you see are the Cascades. The street is Madison street. The body of water, is Lake Washington! That's Bellevue across the lake. Alistair says it's 27 feet above sea level. It's about 2 miles away (as the crow flies).











And this is looking West out on our deck. On a really clear day, you can see the Sound at the end of the street. We have binoculars to take a look, so when you come to visit, you'll see it for yourself.

This is basically a picture of the downtown area - it's only 17 blocks away here and if you walk, it takes about 40 minutes. The bus takes about 15-20 if it's not a slow day. . . It's mostly down hill, so not too bad. It's coming back that'll kill your legs - it's a buns 'o steel work out for sure!!!!

Starting to share

Hi all,

I've decided to blog about my daily escapade with the crazy Ramsdales (that would be me - kaypea, Alistair, mouse mouse , monkey pants, and captin willard). I'll post pictures and tell you about anything remotely interesting. I'm sure I'll have many things that are completely NOT interesting, but at least you 'll know what's going on.

Tonight is not very eventful. I've been working on the computer and converting pictures, copying my cd's for my ipod, and generally crafting. The almost Dr. is working on the bugs. . . doctoring them up, I guess.

Speaking of the escapade. . . the almost dr. went to Federation Forrest today to do some collecting. He took only four pictures, but they are great. Federation Forrest State Park is only 25 miles from Mount Rainier (the big mountain you always see in the picture). The Park he visited is in the middle of the Baker Snoqualmie National Forrest near the Mount Rainer National Park. From Seattle, you can see Mount Rainer (I'll post that picture too), but it's more than 80 miles away. So, it's pretty cool to see a different perspective of the mountain.

It's been kind of hot here (for Seattle), so we haven't felt like doing anything. We went to Trader Joe's again today. We live above it, so we do most of our shopping there. They have great cheese pizza, orangina (my fav from Europe), and great produce (and cheap wine).

Not much else is going on. Much love!!!!




kaypea