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Sunset Over Olympia

June 18, 2015 Maria Mudd Ruth

What a great town! This is the view of Olympia, Washington, last night (June 17, Wednesday) around 9 p.m. Yes, those are the Olympic Mountains in the background, Capitol Lake in the foreground, and the clouds most everywhere else.

These are mid-level altocumulus clouds--one of the more challenging types of clouds to identify because they are so varied, occur in a wide range of altitudes (6,600 to 24,000 feet or 2-7 km above the earth), and because they look very different in the setting sun than they do in the daytime.

 

In Clouds
← Jellyfish Clouds, Clouds of JellyfishCirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling →

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Flying from Mountaineers Books this Spring—the story of the Pigeon Guillemot—the world’s most charismatic alcid. This non-fiction natural history will be on bookshelves and available from online retailers on April 7, 2026. Click a link below to pre-order a copy now from these purveyors:

Mountaineers Books (non-profit, indie publisher based in Seattle)

Browsers Books (Olympia’s indie bookstore)

Bookshop.org (support your local bookstore)

Barnes & Noble (in the book biz since 1971)

Amazon


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Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet

“Compelling…  engaging.” —Library Journal

“Rare insights into the trials and joys of scientific discovery.” —Publisher’s weekly

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Enjoy this song by Peter Horne, "Little Bird, Little Boat, Big Ocean.” Written about the Marbled Murrelet, but the lyrics work well for the Pigeon Guillemot, too.


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