Coleman reading Flora of Pacific NW Burroughs 3
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Coleman reading Flora of Pacific NW Burroughs 3

Coleman carried a most impressive botanical reference manual up to 8000 feet, his signed first edition of:

Flora of the Pacific Northwest
An Illustrated manual
by C. Leo Hitchcock
and Arthur Cronquist

Burroughs 3 is one of my favorite spots to go on an early morning in August or September. It is a quiet spot with a quite of view of Mount Rainier. It is a good walk from Sunrise , maybe 3 miles and with ups and downs maybe 2000 feet of elevation gain.
It's one of the easiest ways to get to 8000 feet in Washington State.

Shelf fungi at Green Lake, Mount Rainier National Park
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

You can really see how this fungi pulls moisture from this decaying log.
Fungi play an important role o\in the ecology of this forest, a subject I am always trying to learn more about.

( see the top side )

Nurse log, Quinault Rain Forest Nature Trail
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

Nurse log, Quinault Rain Forest Nature Trail
Olympic National Park is home to a temperate rain forest , a very interesting ecosystem. A nurse log is a fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings.

Nurse log is on the Quinault Rain Forest Nature Trail in Olympic National Park. This is a very short walk, but very worthwhile - one of a number short family walks in the area of Lake Quinault.

Indian Henry's Hunting Ground and Patrol Cabin(this was our lunch time view, days like this are why I love being in the mountains). This was October, 2006

Indian Henry's Hunting Ground and Patrol Cabin
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

Carbon Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

On a December, 2004 hike with my friend Clark. THis used to be a very easy hike, about 3.5 miles and 1300 feet of elevation gain to this spot. With the recent (November, 2006) floods at Mount Rainier National Park, it is going to be much longer because the road to the parking lot has been severely damaged. It's always a great hike, I hope that the road is repaired, esle it will be a much longer hike.

This was taken at the base of the '>Carbon Glacier in Mount Rainier National Park, I believe the lowest elevation glacier in the continental US. It's also a glacier that hasn't receded much (unlike others in Washington state). It is covered with a lot of dirt and rocks, hence the name Carbon Glacier.

Donald Keene at his Tokyo home
Originally uploaded by ionushi.

Reading what Keene has written makes me think that my efforts to archive photos and memories may be worth while. We can store vast amounts in the memory palaces of our brains, photos and some related words are the key that lts us unlock the rooms we seldom enter in our mind:

" Some readers of my serial have expressed admiration for my ability to remember so much that happened long ago. I, on the contrary, am more aware of what I have forgotten. Recently I had the occasion to take out some old photographs. They show me standing next to other persons, all of us smiling at the camera. I don't remember either the places or who the people were. I search for a clue, perhaps words written on a wall in a foreign language, anything that might reveal in which country the picture was taken. All that survives of these moments are some photographs without captions.

"I have often regretted that I haven't kept a diary. A diary would surely help me to recapture much of the past. But perhaps it is just as well to have forgotten so much. If I remembered everything, I would recall things that frightened me when I was a small child, teachers I disliked at school, friends who I thought had be

trayed me, people I loved who did not love me. No, it is probably better not to try to remember. I hope that this chronicle, for all its deficiencies, has at least suggested how one human being spent an essentially happy life." (Chronicles of My Life in the 20th Century)

reality
Originally uploaded by Christina Lutze.

This is a very good idea, I really like the contrast between the older photo and the current one. This is a very creative photo by Christina Lutze.

I want to try this same idea with some of my photos.

Interesting Rock on Crystal Peak
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

I studied this rock in some detail while I sat eating my lunch on a warm sunny Saturday. It was interesting, it drew my interest, even with the great views of Mount Rainier in front of me, as well as Mount Adams, Mount St Helens, Mount Hood in the far distance, and Glacier Peak.

I studied this rock in some detail while I sat eating my lunch on a warm sunny Saturday. It was interesting, it drew my interest, even with the great views of Mount Rainier in front of me, as well as Mount Adams, Mount St Helens, Mount Hood in the far distance, and Glacier Peak. I liked the cairn on top and the color.

Then I noticed it was covered with ladybugs, a surprising discovery on a late fall day. The more I looked, the more I found. I was surprised, you can see that it is cold up here at 6600 feet, notice the patch of snow on the right. (based on the heavy rain in Seattle the nextday, I am sure that this area is covered in snow.
www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/281930278/
www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/281931455/
www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/281936925/
www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/281937228/

Finally, it had an interesting variety of lichens.
www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/281936292/

So, finding an interesting rock is the reason why I like to get up early and go into the mountains.

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Breakfast in Bed Mary Cassatt
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

This was one of my favorite paintings from when we visited the Huntington Library on 14 September 2006. Here is the explanation from the painting at Huntington Library, with some added hyperlinks

Mary Cassatt 1844-1926

Breakfast in Bed ca. 1894

Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation

Mary Cassatt became one of the first American women to achieve international recognition as an artist. Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, she spent most of her life in France. There she became part of a group of artists lnown as the Impressionists , who pioneered the technique of using small brush strokes of unmixed color to capture the effects of light. They also tooks elements of daily life as their subject, rather than historical or mythological scenes.

Beginning in the 1880s, Cassatt depicted the subject which absorbed her for the rest of her career: the mother and child. She often dealt with tension between a mother's focused attention on a chaild and a child's desire to explore the world. In Breakfast in Bed the mother gazes at the child wrapped in her arms, while the child gazes out in to the room. By focusing closely on the figures, Cassatt draws the viewer into the intimate scene.

Christopher Alexander Books
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

Christopher Alexander has written (another) interesting series of books on architecture and design. I came across these in my fine local bookstore, Third Place Books of Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA. I could not help laying them out in an array.

I have just started Stephen Wolframs "A New Kind of Science". These books by Alexander seem a very good complement.

Evolution of Boing Boing website
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

I was very interested to look at how a website evolved over time. I chose boingboing.net as I had noticed it grow and thouhgt it would be interesting to see it evolve. Here's the result, using some excellent tools that are available over the web.

I also consider it a form of computer art, it really shows the evolution of the web.

flicker_photos_lorenzodom_alltags_082206
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

Here is a more complicated web graph
I noticed that lorenzodom does a lot of great tagging and documenting of his photos. It leads to more complexity and a more interesting photo collection
This is a snapshot of lorenzodom flickr all tags page
www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzodom/alltags/

He has several thousand tags amongst his 16982 photos as of 22 August 2006

For a comparison of complexity, see a graph of my alltags page (~ 1/4 to 1/5 as complex)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/222876313/in/set-72157594248410291/



see www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/


Try a search for the tag websitesasgraphs to see some other very interesting patterns

I learned about this from r.rosenberger websitesasgraphs
www.flickr.com/photos/rrosie/sets/72157594152137978/



What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags