The above photo, from the Skagit Valley's, Linda Lou, arrived on my phone this morning, along with text saying, "Mount Baker trying to peek through the clouds."
It took me awhile to find where it was hiding on my computer, but eventually I located a photo of the same view, which I took way back in April of 2006 when I was heading to my Favorite Nephew Jason's first wedding.
In this version Mount Baker is not hiding.
Seems odd now, how totally normal it seemed to live so close to a semi-active volcano.
That dip at the top of the volcano is the crater.
When you hike up Mount Baker eventually you get close enough to the crater to smell the sulphur odor the crater emits.
At times Mount Baker spews out a lot of steam along with that sulphureous odor. At a volume of sufficient size that it can be seen from the location you see above, driving north on I-5, or any other location with a view of the mountain.
In my current frame of mind it is looking unlikely that I will be seeing the above scenery this coming summer...
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