Miles Morgan

And I believe the image is copyrighted.


http://www.milesmorganphotography.com/

http://500px.com/MilesMorganPhotography

thanks for noting Miles Morgan

on the photo or anywhere on the website. But it is still nice to give proper attribution.

It's a common misconception that it's not copyrighted if it doesn't say so on the photo or website.

However, try to right click and save one of his photos on his website. You'll see his copyright notification.

is ever "automatically" copyrighted.

I stand corrected, however, regarding this instance. Right-clicking, indeed, unveils the copyright protection.

I hiked up the backside. Someday soon I'd like to hike the other side and peer into the crater.

May 18, 1980 I was living in Pullman, Washington about 300 miles east. The sky first turned gray and then about 1:30 in the afternoon it got totally dark. It was the first time in my life that the EBS on tv went off and the guy was screaming "This is not a test" Ash began to fall at about 3:30pm and we were told not to walk in it...but we had to...being college kids and knowing that this might be a once in a lifetime event. It felt like walking on powdered sugar. Classes were cancelled for about a week. It ruined the paint on our car and also destroyed our vynal records. We got married six weeks later in Eastern Washington and there were a few people who wouldn't make the trip because the mountain was still sputtering.

Incredible.

Had to put in some overtime at my state job in downtown Salem, came out to find my car and everything around it covered with ash. Still have a bottle of that ash from our front yard sitting on my living room curio cabinet. What an experience that was! I recall how upset some residents in the mountain towns were when WA governor Dixie Lee ordered an evacuation, I remember one of the evacuees angrily stating how St. Helens had done everything she was going to do to them, and there was no reason to have to leave their homes. Quite a surprise when Sunday morning she (the mountain) blew her top. What a memory!

I have vivid memories of Pullman and the ash. I had a brand new baby girl and spent most of my maternity leave stuck in the house. We did not know if the ash would damage the baby's lungs. We gave away gifts of volcanic ash in baby food jars to our friends. I now live in the Portland, OR area and can see Mt. St. Helen's from my upper yard along with Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood. If any of them blow, I know what to expect now!!

we were going to go to Boyer Park with friends but cancelled (wisely) but did go to Rosauers and bought a ton of beer and chips. We did the ash in the baby food jar as wedding participant gifts. Last year I talked to one of the young nieces who got one of those jars and to my amazement she still had it.

That is a lot of years ago and many homes since then, but we were living in a duplex on NW North St., I think (not far from the water tower at the top of the hill). My husband lived in Anthony Hall apartments before we got married. Small world! We were going to go to the Renaissance Fair in Moscow, and I remember being angry at the weatherman because I could see what I thought were dark storm clouds coming from the west. It was a good thing we stayed home because when the ash started falling from the sky, we had no idea what the next few days would be like. I remember wondering if we would see the sun the next day as it was as dark as night in the daytime. The bad side was my mother-in-law got stuck with us for a week having come down from Spokane to see the baby!! Do you ever go back to Pullman? We went to the WSU-Colorado game last year. We were ahead until the last 7 seconds. Hopefully, the Cougars will do better this year.

I met my wife singing in the Catholic Choir at St. Thomas More. Did work for Trinity Lutheran also. We do go back once in a great while. Was at a game in 1990. We went back there last summer, our daughter was 16 and we took the tour of the campus with her. So many memories! What was specially ironic was that in my senior year my on campus job was being the senior tour guide. So much of the tour was the same! I love going back there. My daughter tho, wants nothing to do with living on the east side of the state. She wants to go to Western Washington. The fun thing about living in the NW Anthony apartments was that we lived almost right about Rosauers and Dismores and also Daylight donuts, used to love going down there right when they were making them. We live in Tacoma now.

We moved from Tacoma two years ago. Our house was in the Browns Point area and our 3 kids went to Stadium H.S. I actually still telecommute to my job in Tacoma. Two of my 3 kids are Huskies (ugh!). My middle son is a disabled Marine but is getting back on track with his life and is going to community college in Gresham, OR. We were in Tacoma this past weekend to visit our daughter but spent the night in Seattle with our youngest. I am ready to move back to Washington when my husband retires. I miss Puget Sound and Mt. Rainier. Oregon is gorgeous, too, but I have been a Washingtonian for most of my life.

and my daughter is a senior at Stadium-small world!

My youngest graduated in 2004. He went to PLU and then on to UW for grad school and just got a job with the City of Seattle. My co-worker's son graduated from Stadium in 2012 and is a sophomore at WSU. The years sure go by fast. Mys sons played football and soccer at Stadium, so I have spent a lot of time at the school. Has your daughter seen the movie, "10 Things I Hate about You" with Heath Ledger? It was filmed when my son and daughter were going there. It has great pictures of the school.

she was about two years old and some of it was filmed at a house on 28th and Junett four blocks from where we lived.

I shot a photo of the ash plume from the top of the water tower in Volunteer Park. It was pretty far away of course. My parents lived in Sumner and mom forgot to close the kitchen window one day. She got a layer of very fine ash all over the kitchen that was very hard to clean up.

Dad and I had driven around the area a couple of weeks before - to Toutle, WA. I took a number of photos on our little trip and put them in a little album called "What Was Toutle."

A W E S O M E and thanks again for posting.

Mt. St. Helens Eruptions, a Photo Gallery

I was at the mountain a few months ago. Almost everything is still dead for miles around. It's an incredible site, well worth visiting.

for the Forest Service near Mt Hood. Mt St. Helens was plainly visible from our units.

Beautiful!

"One learns that the world, though made, is still being made, that this is still the morning of creation".

Most monuments preserve landscapes formed over thousands or millions of years. When I first saw St. Helens and the Toutle River Valley below it, I was struck by the fact that here was a landscape younger than myself.

Life has returned to the Valley in so many remarkable, unexpected ways. I can't wait to see how it continues to progress through my lifetime.

That is a great photo. Did you take the photo? If not you, do you know who took the photo?

Oh, wait, there's flowers in the foreground. Mordor "is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume."

K&R