This is Karin Hendrickson, the musher one of the gals I traveled to the Iditarod sled dog race in AK with. She was a rookie this year and did quite well. Heck just finishing the race is doing quite well. Karin put on a slide show last weekend at her mother's home here in Southern CA and talked about her first Iditarod experiences. It was very interesting. She came through it pretty much unscathed while some veterans of the race nearly lost their lives because of the extreme weather conditions this year. Jodi-

Great pics!!! Karen, I would love to have a beautiful place like that trail for hiking! Jodi, those birds are beautiful!

Great pictures everyone!!Moni,i had some columbines that color last year,hope they come back this year. Love that picture of the blue heron enjoying his meal.All these pictures are wonderful,like potato chip,can't pick just one. kathi

Taken in the St. Helen's Museum. On the drive up I wondered why the stumps didn't burn and this explained it. It was not a lava eruption it was an ash eruption. The stumps would not burned because there was not enough oxygen. By the way the new growth of trees was beautiful. They were very worried the seeds would not survive.