tags: nature, coast, Image of the Day
I have been digging through my image archives in my gmail account and found some real treasures that my readers sent to me. Unfortunately, I overlooked quite a few images that were sent when I was in the hospital and had poor computer access. So let me fix this oversight during the next few weeks;
More like this
"Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
From Earth to the Universe was a brilliant outreach project for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, displaying online, and in real life, some of the best astronomical images around.
A few years ago I needed to image some ants for a short taxonomic paper. Lacking a decent specimen imaging system (like Entovision), I decided to snap the photos at
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -Mark Twain
Beautiful photo! I would actually guess that's somewhere along the Washington coast. I know the Oregon coast very well, and I don't recall seeing a scene like that - you don't as commonly see trees growing on offshore rocks like that, IIRC. This picture actually reminds me very much of the area around Ozette in Olympic NP - I've done several backpacking trips there and it looks very similar.
thanks for the info. it looks very familiar to me, too, but i've spent so much time on the WA, OR and NoCal coasts that i was unable to remember precisely where this could have been. so i guessed.