Geology Club trip to the Channeled Scablands

Caves at Lake Lenore. These caves were created by the massive flood waters plucking boulders from the walls of the coulee.


Doing what geologists do best: checking out the coolest rocks we can find.


Erin sampling the water at Soap Lake. Soap Lake is a very saline alkaline lake. Not very many critters swimming around there.


Come out of your cave walking on your hands, see the world hanging upside down.


Dry Falls: at the height of the Glacial Lake Missoula floods, there was 10 million cubic meters of water flowing through this area.

Snowhenge

The last of the snow scapes. It's getting springy here!

Geology!

We finally chose our t-shirt design. Now we just have to choose our color scheme.

Surprise Snowmen!

A friend of ours has to ride past our apartment to get to his. After the last snow, he made us a new snow creature every day. They were waiting for us on the steps. They have all melted now.

This was the first one.


A crashed alien snowship and two aliens arguing about who was giving the wrong directions. "I said you should have turned left at the last galaxy!" (That's what Zak said they were saying.)

Hot Springing!

Cooling off and enjoying some rays in the snow.


Crossing the stream to get to the sun.




Layers in the snow.

A Thought From Within - Woody Harrelson

I sometimes feel like an alien creature
for which there is no earthly explanation
Sure I have human form
walking erect and opposing digits,
but my mind is upside down.
I feel like a run-on sentence
in a punctuation crazy world.
and I see the world around me
like a mad collective dream.

An endless stream of people
move like ants from the freeway
cell phones, pc's, and digital displays
"In Money We Trust,"
we'll find happiness
the prevailing attitude;
like a genetically modified irradiated Big Mac
is somehow symbolic of food.

Morality is legislated
prisons over-populated
religion is incorporated
the profit-motive has permeated all activity
we pay our government to let us park on the street
And war is the biggest money-maker of all
we all know missile envy only comes from being small.

Politicians and prostitutes
are comfortable together
I wonder if they talk about the strange change in the weather.
This government was founded by, of, and for the people
but everybody feels it
like a giant open sore
they don't represent us anymore
And blaming the President for the country's woes
is like yelling at a puppet
for the way it sings
Who's the man behind the curtain pulling the strings?

A billion people sitting watching their TV
in the room that they call living
but as for me
I see living as loving
and since there is no loving room
I sit on the grass under a tree
dreaming of the way things used to be
Pre-Industrial Revolution
which of course is before the rivers and oceans, and skies were polluted

before Parkinson's, and mad cows
and all the convoluted cacophony of bad ideas
like skyscrapers, and tree paper, and earth rapers
like Monsanto and Dupont had their way
as they continue to today.

This was Pre-us
back when the buffalo roamed
and the Indian's home
was the forest, and God was nature
and heaven was here and now
Can you imagine clean water, food, and air
living in community with animals and people who care?

Do you dare to feel responsible for every dollar you lay down
are you going to make the rich man richer
or are you going to stand your ground
You say you want a revolution
a communal evolution
to be a part of the solution
maybe I'll be seeing you around.

Dare Mighty Things

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” --Theodore Roosevelt