Only once in so many years (photos)

There is a solar eclipse today tomorrow. Here in Portland, Oregon, they say the eclipse will start at 5:04, and will last until after 7 pm.

Show of hands please: How many of you would like to see the NWC version of the eclipse?

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Alright then.

32 years ago yesterday, May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens erupted in the largest volcanic explosion seen in the lower forty-eight states in modern history:

St. Helens, as seen from the north side of my 8 story apartment building, in 2004, when the mountain went through a series of low=scale eruptions.

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misc. pictures I came across while looking for Hug Point pictures:

Me and my friend Jhni’s daughter, at Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Caifornia, the lowest point in North America:

She’s in her twenties now; this was 1995.

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I never thought I would own a minivan:

Turns out I kinda liked it and got three years of use out of it before it died… I like my Caliber far better though.

We left the van at home and rented that 07 Dodge Caliber, for that sunset on Hug Point, so named because the wagon road on the shore line… hugged the point.

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Wiscasset, Maine, in 1984:

These abandoned lumber schooners laid at the side of the river when I lived there; I think they’re gone now.

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Pictures from other days:

My college graduation in 2000, with my friend A.

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Sunset over downtown Portland:

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I’m going to Hug Point  on Sunday – a very good series of sunsets was shot there and posted here in 2007… hmm. Not last year. Five years ago.

Is it my imagination that the years go by faster and faster?

Hug Point is below Haystack Rock, a rock formation off the coast near Cannon Beach (named for cannon found there from a shipwreck)

I went to Hug Point beach for the first time in 2007; also the first time I had a Dodge Caliber to drive. Four of us went out there – me and my friend K*, and our friends A and J. That rental Caliber had no problems going over the coast range with four people in it; one of the things that led me to buy my own Caliber.

Click the above link for the Oregon Sate Parks guide on Hug beach; from the days of stagecoaches on the beach, the first coast highway ran on the beaches along the coast.

I’m going to go alone, I guess, but I’ll take a few pictures and we’ll see what the camera sees, ok?

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I’ve got over ten thousand pictures on Photobucket these days, and cannot yet find the Hug Point shots I know I posted here in ’07.

Hmm.  shoulda labled the files more clearly, and if I go back now and do it, that will break the links to the pictures I have posted.

Good thing I made that mistake; thinking that the eclipse was TODAY – thankfully, I got a text message telling me the truth, and that gives me time to find those pesky pictures.

 

 

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