LooWit: Mount St Helens In The Sunrise

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Leaving work about two days ago I saw the same sort of sunrises we've been enjoying lately giving great color to the sides of the truncated cone of Loowit:

Still I remember when it wasn't lopped off like that. Snow is now heavy on the mountainsides, and the long rays of the winter sun gave that great color.

But in this ... extreme closeup ...
 

... I bumped the color.

Yep. That's me. Color bumper. If color bumping is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[WyEast] On A (Finally) Clear Day ... Mountains

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We haven't had a view this crystal for months. And the sun was a little blind-y. But it was worth it.

From NE 89th and Killingsworth ... Loo-Wit. St. Helens.

A train passing by on the lower part of the frame there kind of gives the scene a forlorn quality ... but still, not sad.

And we know what majestic massif this is.

The sun at close quarters giving a strange light to the scene; it's fall, but it feels like the heat summer (of which we've seen enough, thank you). There's early fall snow on all the peaks, but the flood of sunshine makes it impossible to see.

But still, it's good.

[Wy'East] The Mount Hood For The Day Is St Helens

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In anticipation of the coming wintry mix (Winter? Stahp!) I looked to the sky this morning and there was that gorgeous salmon-pink again.

The eastern sky pretty much obscured Hood, but the pink framed Loo-wit … Mt. St. Helens as we white folk call it … memorably.

This shot was taken from the hill overlooking the area of Parkrose that contains the old Rossi place, just east of 122nd off NE Fremont Street, where there are a handful of short cul-de-sacs which afford an even better view.

St Helens is, sadly, remarkable for what she looked like and what she did back in 1980. The real treat is found on the north side, the great crater with the lava dome which has entertained us muchly over the past decade.

But it is something to look at from the south side, knowing what happened there in a lifetime a great many of us share.