“Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning five major rivers. Subalpine wildflower meadows ring the icy volcano
while ancient forest cloaks Mount Rainier’s lower slopes.
Wildlife abounds in the park’s ecosystems.“ 
Day 67 ~ SE-67-25
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
~ Aldo Leopold
Day 65 ~ SE-65-25 “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Wishing you joy as deep as the ocean and worries as light as its' foam. We shore had fun in the studio today painting the sun, shore, and sand! These are the two paintings I demonstrated for my brilliant beach buddies. You can see our creative class collection here.
“In 1926, the last wolf pack in Yellowstone was wiped out,
causing the ecosystem to be thrown out of balance.
The reintroduction of wolves, starting in 1995,
transformed the Yellowstone ecosystem,
saving it from imbalance and
restoring its natural beauty.”
