Wow. Today we drove to central Oregon to see what we could see of Mt. St. Helen. So. Stinking. Unbelievably. Gorgeous. They have three different visitor's centers that are the best ones we've seen so far. Of course they have every detail of the blow from every imaginable angle in huge living color. 85,000 homes were built from the trees that fell in the hurricane-like wind. You easily see on the mountains where they planted and continue to plants thousands of seedlings. It has been so long now since the first plantings that they are harvesting, and replanting. You'll see blind spots on the mountains from most recent harvesting. From the time you get off the highway, everything is beautiful.
These pictures are backwards, and I am too tired to change them. They start with flora and fauna at our overnight stop on the Oregon coast, then a farmer's market we stopped by on the way here, and lastly, what we actually did first in viewing and learning about the volcano.
Thank the Lord for safe arrival. The road from interior Washington to Oregon coast was the most curves I've endured so far. The patch is working.
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