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THE YEAR OF THE AUK - Make it stand out Frances Wood’s watercolor of the Pigeon Guillemot graces the front, back, and inside covers of this blank journal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/bcf8e282-e849-4f7b-8f4f-b0a41f2040d0/Screenshot+2026-02-18+174019.png Blog - THE YEAR OF THE AUK - Make it stand out Yes, a bird with flaming red feet can improve a Grateful Dead album cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/14aefd98-52dc-46fe-ab3e-9fd094cee0b4/Screenshot+2026-02-18+175916.png Blog - THE YEAR OF THE AUK - Make it stand out A new natural history of two more auks (auklets and puffins) due out in March from University of Washington Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/02f82544-c7b2-4f16-ab44-76ba462c5b93/IMG_20260220_134115651%7E4.jpg Blog - THE YEAR OF THE AUK - Make it stand out Gone but not forgotten, the Great Auk lives on in Tim Birkhead’s new book. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2026/1/18/judge-this-book-by-its-cover monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/24ec8b53-c805-43c5-b50d-f7b1d6759cb3/Screenshot+2026-01-16+182326.png Blog - Judge This Book by Its Cover - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/21f19074-3cc8-479f-b5f6-ec525207762d/5+DuetTrill.png Blog - Judge This Book by Its Cover - Make it stand out Pigeon Guillemots by Susan Morgan. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2025/12/19/pigeon-guillemots-in-winter monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/93049de2-761e-4706-8aa0-99742ca1ad4c/DSC_9948.png Blog - Pigeon Guillemots in Winter - Make it stand out Pigeon Guillemots (Cepphus columba) in basic (winter) plumage on Puget Sound, Washington. Photo by Hillary Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/e80185f3-4c4c-4b36-ade7-780006aa3d95/Scream.png Blog - Pigeon Guillemots in Winter - Make it stand out Calligraphy of Pigeon Guillemot Vocal Sonogram by Sally Penley https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2025/11/20/arriving-this-spring monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/4f208ce8-8a13-4b20-8919-4903568d5dc9/BirdWithFlamingRedFeet_Cover_Final+%281%29.jpg Blog - Arriving this Spring! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2025/3/11/coming-up-for-air monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1a9e29c4-6618-4fdf-aefe-5ee7b2136834/DSC_6772+3.JPEG Blog - Coming Up for Air - Make it stand out Greetings from Guillemot-ville! These birds with the flaming red feet are the subject of my next book. (Photo courtesy Hillary Smith). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/99720fd6-e951-49e3-82cd-54f030897d9e/HIllary+Smith.jpg Blog - Coming Up for Air - Make it stand out Pigeon Guillemots on high alert. (Photo courtesy of Hillary Smith) https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2022/10/21/good-news-for-one-marbled-murrelet monthly 0.5 2022-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1ccf808e-3e8e-4f88-a706-3cfd8cff5fd4/WCNC_MAMU13.jpg Blog - Good News for One Marbled Murrelet - Make it stand out A Marbled Murrelet juvenile with a few bits of its downy plumage after nearly a month in rehab. 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Just Water. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2021/8/26/summers-lease monthly 0.5 2021-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1629997437190-HGG65ZLFZHR1XFONT8ST/20210823_094651.jpg Blog - Summer's Lease - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2021/8/12/atlas-of-the-lost-world monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1628817852797-CN09ME6VPYRRLHM4SSL1/Screen+Shot+2021-08-12+at+6.23.00+PM.png Blog - Atlas of the Lost World - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1628895922473-DFRRYJOCH8NV71EN762X/20210812_180827.jpg Blog - Atlas of the Lost World - Make it stand out Prolonged drought and global warming has lead to ice-cap melting, coral reefs bleaching, intermittent lakes vanishing. The new limits of drift ice has stranded polar bears; the limit of unnavigable polar ice is shrinking and opening up new passageways. The pale blue color we use to symbolize water is turning green with algal blooms. Global ocean currents are moving in strange ways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1628895657737-B0SEE0QQHA04DEZNX67V/20210812_180910.jpg Blog - Atlas of the Lost World - Make it stand out In the forty years since this atlas was published, so many boundaries have shifted or disappeared. We have lost so much of our Tundra, Ice Shelves, and Glaciers. And though Tree Line is associated with elevation or latitude, its is hard not to see these little red trees as symbols of trees lost to wildfires. Below Sea Level is used to be just a matter of elevation of land. Why did it take us so long to think about the social equity and racial justice component of sea-level rise? 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Ruth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1616968830074-1MV7RYSYRLBKKR7VNGO3/IMG_20210326_140837908.jpg Blog - Why I Didn't Swim Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1616968948348-WCJZSYUFB1XRQEPY8TNS/IMG_20210326_141155335.jpg Blog - Why I Didn't Swim Here https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2021/3/4/mouths-closed-beaks-open-at-munn-lake monthly 0.5 2021-03-04 https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2021/2/24/stages-of-a-winter-wild-swim monthly 0.5 2021-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1614196217770-UQY0BVZNLMIXYXCVA45Z/IMG_20210223_170005608_HDR%7E2.jpg Blog - Stages of a Winter Wild Swim Munn Lake looks so alluring before and after a winter swim It’s real allure during a swim is difficult to define. (Photo my M.M Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1614196321888-2E81TT44Z87LAAQCQ4L0/IMG_20210223_163158885_HDR.jpg Blog - Stages of a Winter Wild Swim Self portrait of author while author’s hippie-hatted brain struggles to convince author to stay out of the 46-degree water. Shortly after photo was taken, author told brain to “get over it.” (Photo by M.M. Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1614196374937-ZVVSLZT6U9HW378SX387/IMG_20210223_163147636_HDR.jpg Blog - Stages of a Winter Wild Swim The “after” is a really wonderful time and is in no way sponsored by dryrobe, though they do make the before and after quite pleasant, even toasty. (Photo by M.M. 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THis is 10 degrees cooler since my last wild swim in late October. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1608772086187-JLXHD62BWQS9U686T8MC/20201222_130546.jpg Blog - One Number and A Few Words https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2020/8/24/big-basin-big-heartbreak monthly 0.5 2020-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1598283527906-M0BAHP8Q81M4S5YE2NHH/Screen+Shot+2020-08-24+at+8.37.28+AM.png Blog - Big Basin Heartbreak Image by Randy Vazquez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News Via Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1598289257106-NS9IYDJCQP7T90MJOH2W/MAMU+5+%281%29.jpg Blog - Big Basin Heartbreak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1598284689485-OI3S4HGR4BACNCGE1U5M/mariatree%2Bcopy.jpg Blog - Big Basin Heartbreak Photo of the author at Big Basin Redwood State Park (by M.D. Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1598284786673-IPH7MTD9ZYQ507YLT31Z/Screen+Shot+2020-08-24+at+8.38.06+AM.png Blog - Big Basin Heartbreak The remains of the headquarters building at Big Basin Redwood State Park, the site where park rangers solved the great nesting mystery of the marbled murrelet in August 1974. 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Here are the new leaves of a salal plant. Cool! If you want to completely disappear into the the marvelous macroscopic universe…you can get special attachment lenses (macro and telephoto, too) for your smart phone, Android, or tablet and zoom way in. You can purchase such at reasonable prices from various online vendors. Just search for “clip-on mobile lens set.” The photos below feature early spring buds of native plants. (All photos by M.M. 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Kim Nelson and Dan Cushing and used with permission. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/10/24/walden-pond-is-alake monthly 0.5 2019-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1572817825338-CRBI3MYXT4YYFVXCBTIQ/20190919_121758.jpg Blog - Walden Pond is a...Lake Thoreau’s Walden Pond beckons wild swimmers from near and far. Swimming here is like swimming in a shrine. (Photo M.D. Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1572583450282-E3F0QXPFPGATNJBGVD1P/20190919_112257.jpg Blog - Walden Pond is a...Lake Despite what our poor memory and imagination want to tell us, Thoreau’s one-room cabin was not in the wilderness. Nor was it remote. Nor was Thoreau a hermit during his two-year stint living here. Thoreau went often to the town of Concord (one-and-a-half miles away) and was visited by friends and family regularly. He lived simply and intentionally at Walden Pond for two years (1845-1847). (Photo by M.M. Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1572898344298-D0V745IVTG0Y2FZMB720/20190919_124925.jpg Blog - Walden Pond is a...Lake Walden Pond is full of surprises, including its clarity, range of cool colors, and seeming lack of change since Thoreau’s day. (Photo by M.D. Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1571964433087-YRPQBBXOW4ZD2Q2NIAXU/20190919_122845.jpg Blog - Walden Pond is a...Lake The length of Walden Pond from Long Cove—a lovely entry point for a Wild Swim. (Photo by M.D. Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1572827558775-40IGT23QBZM91I2DD50X/20190919_124925.jpg Blog - Walden Pond is a...Lake Thoreau wrote about the wildlife around and in Walden Pond (including the petite Mud Turtle) but failed to mentioned one particular wild resident. 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(Photo by M.M Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1570843447196-0B5XEGVDN3IC396FG29I/20190709_124434.jpg Blog - Lake Chelan Wild Swim In the wake of the Pleistocene…a ice-gouged valley and a 1,485-foot-deep lake. (Photo by M. M. Ruth of map on display aboard the Lady of the Lake passenger ferry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1570911424393-44Y88PCF7X2QX3MRMET5/20191008_135723.jpg Blog - Lake Chelan Wild Swim The Lady of the Lake passenger ferry runs daily trips from Chelan to Stehekin. It’s a grand way to enjoy the scenery, mingle with fellow travelers and residents, and enjoy the ferry captains’ informative narrative. Plan on making unscheduled stops for interesting sights and to drop off and pick up passengers hiking and camping in the wilderness areas surrounding the lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1565541359346-F85FX1MZ38OTHNJLUBAP/20190710_082441.jpg Blog - Lake Chelan Wild Swim Kayaks rented from the North Cascades Lodge in Stehekin make a great way to explore Lake Chelan but be aware of shifting winds that can make paddling northward a slog. Photo by M.M. Ruth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1565541398871-32HRQGXLPYOX38NOWIKZ/20190710_100940.jpg Blog - Lake Chelan Wild Swim Stand-Up Paddle Canoeing isn’t the rage yet on Lake Chelan but I recommend it for a pleasant change in perpective of the water and the clouds floating in it. Plus it gives the stearnsman a ridiculous photo op. 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Ruth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1567442464681-F0KVNHN3KSFO2XA5AUCC/20190831_113813.jpg Blog - “I Need to Show You This Lake... Photo by M.M. Ruth https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/8/18/alpine-lakes-wild-swims monthly 0.5 2022-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1566164713151-Z0XRSSARXKGVGGTIEW4T/20190730_115333.jpg Blog - Alpine Lakes Wild Swims If you have one big Pacific Northwest hike left in you the summer, get to Jade Lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Please read the WTA trip reports before you go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1566167674393-0Z917G35YOBCBUTEHXTV/Screen+Shot+2019-08-18+at+3.33.28+PM.png Blog - Alpine Lakes Wild Swims The color known as “jade” comes in many hues, tones, and saturation levels. None here or in other color charts I consulted match the water I swam in. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/8/3/lake-ozette-wild-swim monthly 0.5 2019-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1564931995377-8CYEYKZXZU81T732KJ7H/Screen+Shot+2019-08-03+at+10.52.19+AM.png Blog - Lake Ozette Wild Swim The convoluted shoreline of Lake Ozette makes it a great place to explore by canoe—plenty of bays, coves, points, nooks, crannies, and few uninhabited islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1564932123906-1YXBIUSHVP0KSS30XE2P/20190625_182352.jpg Blog - Lake Ozette Wild Swim The only sign that you’ve arrived at the entrance to the primitive campground at Erickson’s Bay on Lake Ozette is this alluring driftwood bench. Photo by MM Ruth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1564932193141-A2F2WFZNSMOYZL8ICUQY/20190625_182908.jpg Blog - Lake Ozette Wild Swim Erickson’s Bay campground on Lake Ozette features a very young, tidy forest of western red-cedars, ferns, and huckleberry and looks like a Hollywood set. Photo by MM Ruth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1564933448872-63FKTV75CBV5OQOHB77I/20190804_082950.jpg Blog - Lake Ozette Wild Swim For a wild trail to the coast (dashed red lines), boaters can access the boat-in-only trailhead just a mile south of Erickson’s Bay. The better maintained trails (solid red line) to the north form two sides of the popular “Ozette Triangle” and can be accessed from the Ozette Ranger Station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1564932319034-X2K94Z0UG4NVXKDCFGGR/20190626_130752.jpg Blog - Lake Ozette Wild Swim The enchantingly primitive tsunami evacuation trail starts one mile south of Erickson’s Bay on Lake Ozette. Photo by MD Ruth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1564844811971-7C6XCTVS4XHEXPC79RQ6/20190626_170535.jpg Blog - Lake Ozette Wild Swim Lake Ozette Wild Swim—just a mile from tsunami trail to Erickson’s Bay on June 26, 2019. 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It makes a great gift (thanks Max!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1557455978155-LXHC4VEF7ZZK4SR9GLLE/Screen+Shot+2019-05-09+at+7.39.09+PM.png Blog - Outdoor Swimming Society https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/4/30/swimming-with-geese monthly 0.5 2019-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1556649260690-HBWHCDXIKNXBCDRUTWEI/20190425_115232.jpg Blog - Swimming with Geese in Munn Lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1556650710091-VTJZCHP9Q7L0SQ353WCH/20190425_120848.jpg Blog - Swimming with Geese in Munn Lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1556652729322-SCGXTPCCNLJY1GYH9GAQ/20190430_105850.jpg Blog - Swimming with Geese in Munn Lake https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/4/23/books-to-inspire-wild-swimmers monthly 0.5 2019-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1556048423410-UGM93B6458ZZMTSPWEWI/CIMG1172.jpg Blog - Books to Inspire Wild Swimmers The author in Crystal Lake in Mount Rainier National Park. Trail information here. 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(Both Susan and Trails End Lake are not publicly accessible) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1555255950240-SILXF5VBGSBZG6X1VRBH/20190412_141936.jpg Blog - Munn Lake Wild Swim #2 Getting psyched: This looks like a summer day on the boat ramp into Munn Lake, but on April 12, the water temperature was 56 degrees F and the air temperature not much higher. While 56 degrees F might be “warm”to some wild swimmers, it seemed “do-ably brisk” to us. Photo by A. Butler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1555256834856-ETLNUZV5DKF65K6GZSMS/20190412_142334.jpg Blog - Munn Lake Wild Swim #2 Getting In: Though we all stood on the boat ramp at the same time, we were out of sync getting in. The two furthest out did a relaxed breast and crawl; the one in the middle (me) flutter kicked; and the one on the foreground wore her flip-flops in, carried one out while returning to shore soon after her plunge. Photo by A. 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Photo by M.D. .Ruth. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/3/31/still-on-cloud-nine monthly 0.5 2019-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1554053092902-GGY1FISF73QGCAQQAJ16/Screen+Shot+2019-03-31+at+10.24.28+AM.png Blog - Still on Cloud Nine Olympia’s skies feature clouds 228 days a year. Learn about these natural wonders on April 18th. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/3/20/spring-fling-into-munn-lake monthly 0.5 2019-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1553126847640-7K0QUIP6XMEMA6KLL6VP/20190320_150532.jpg Blog - Munn Lake Swim #1 This is what 52 degrees F looks like. It feels much better! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2019/3/9/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-plunge monthly 0.5 2019-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1552152338520-6R46GS0V9NXM2Q466V1H/20180802_131842.jpg Blog - How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Plunge Looking warmish, but not exactly relaxed, after a90-minute summertime swim around and across cool Josephine Lake on Anderson Island, WA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1552152431376-5FSI2AH5DBNFIKLFVEYF/20190101_130233.jpg Blog - How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Plunge Just some of the 300 swimmers who joined the New Year’s Day 2019 Polar Bear Plunge in the extremely-cold-by-any-standard Long Lake, in Lacey, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1552152383997-P7COCDMQW1M970N66SOZ/20180930_094942.jpg Blog - How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Plunge Cold? 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Two Marbled Murrelets painted (not from life) by John James Audubon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1533648849578-29KV9HBD0HZKZ6E4Z6U0/Screen+Shot+2018-07-31+at+9.34.10+AM.png Blog - It’s Marbled Murrelet Nest Discovery Day! The very downy Marbled Murrelet chick discovered on its nest in 1974 Photo courtesy Bruce Elliott (California Dept. Fish & Game) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1533649349428-6JHACAH5MAFL9ZRJ5XIE/Marbled-Murrelet-single-egg-Nick_Hatch_US_ForestService.png Blog - It’s Marbled Murrelet Nest Discovery Day! The Marbled Murrelet is the size of a robin, its egg the size of chicken egg. (Photo by Nick Hatch, USDA Forest Service) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1533649743002-YTPA21HBYI35YBM05S9P/KimNelsonMurreletonWater.jpg Blog - It’s Marbled Murrelet Nest Discovery Day! A Marbled Murrelet in breeding plumage taking off from the water. 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More info on access here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1530653830979-9XWJBM32H4CEGM7GMST5/20180629_132237_1.jpg Blog - The Shape of Water Sure, we're smiling now but we were not so happy getting ourselves into the lake on this brisk day in "June-u-ary." https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/6/19/cloud-watching-spots-in-olympia monthly 0.5 2018-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1529421602865-PWLHV0YHCW727BIGQNC0/IMG_3610.jpg Blog - Cloud Watching Spots in Olympia https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/5/5/ywkn7zovabcy4k28mxjrnui390al1g monthly 0.5 2018-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1525535958957-V664UN58J6HMGW2MSNTE/1020_wind_energy.jpg Blog - What's the Impact of Clean Energy on Wildlife? https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/4/30/where-to-watch-the-clouds monthly 0.5 2018-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1525106574567-UEQZ78LA284JQB4LQ4V9/20180224_154656_1.jpg Blog - Where to Watch the Clouds Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, to the northeast of Olympia, is one of the best cloud-viewing places in the South Sound. The boardwalk gives you the feeling you're walking into the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1525107142072-FPD53HUQIAKJ8WH50UVD/20180424_183958_1.jpg Blog - Where to Watch the Clouds Just as I was about to bury my head in a book, these Cirrus uncinus clouds (high, icy clouds with hooks and long streamers) appeared with an optical phenomenon known as a cirumzenithal arc. This "smiling rainbow" appears almost directly overhead (hence, "zenith") when the sunlight strikes the plate-like ice crystals in the cloud when the crystal face is parallel to the ground. The sun enters the top face of the ice crystal and exits https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/4/23/sideways-wins-silver-nautilus-book-award monthly 0.5 2018-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1524502964050-TD5MHPTBGUPLHXNPMEDL/Screen+Shot+2018-04-20+at+11.07.30+AM.png Blog - Sideways Wins Silver Nautilus Book Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1525288543641-CL8Z5VH10CZDJB87GACI/Screen+Shot+2018-05-02+at+12.06.28+PM.png Blog - Sideways Wins Silver Nautilus Book Award https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/4/14/the-way-you-do-anything monthly 0.5 2018-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1523724375659-HB6YB186SJ6OXZDC5DVZ/20171227_130834.jpg Blog - The Way You Do Anything... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1523724414191-RV2I7Z4TNZ9VRDZ960RD/20171227_130845.jpg Blog - The Way You Do Anything... https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/4/12/my-erstwhile-muse monthly 0.5 2018-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1523585295506-JMRS3JV85QABHWMOD7GM/Screen+Shot+2018-04-12+at+6.47.36+PM.png Blog - My Erstwhile Muse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1523585638894-YLZCP04YG0CGN9NYD0QG/Guide+to+the+Sky+poster.jpg Blog - My Erstwhile Muse The newest (2017) edition of this glorious 2 x 4 foot poster can be ordered here for only $6.89! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/4/3/sideways-plus-6-droplets monthly 0.5 2018-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1522785991346-S66EUGIN0EICWXOIA87I/Nimbostratus.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #6 +Droplets+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1522786724405-QVTGFENQW2QP5RU9ALG8/IMAG5133.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #6 +Droplets+ Water water everywhere...These small clouds (cumulus humilis) are composed of liquid water droplets. The blue sky around the clouds contains anywhere from zero to four percent (by volume) of invisible water vapor--molecules of water too small to be considered droplets, too small to scatter sunlight toward our eyes so we see a watery whiteness that is a cloud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1522787884798-ZKKXI915EOTGXQG0D78B/Screen+Shot+2018-04-03+at+1.37.44+PM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #6 +Droplets+ Understanding what a "droplet" was led me to The University of Washington where I reached a deep understanding of how much I didn't not understand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1522789909289-XZDAI9YL5P281EEBOQXY/Altostratus+Translucidus.JPG Blog - Sideways Plus #6 +Droplets+ This is an Altostratus translucidus (translucent enough to reveal the position of the sun, but thick enough to block it from creating shadows). The patches and shreds of lower gray clouds (possibly stratus fractus, or scud) would be white if the Altostratus weren't present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1522791216480-W32DGL6SX7VPYLO8DISM/20180401_124539.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #6 +Droplets+ Don't wait for a sunny day to get out in nature with your camera. Altostratus clouds allow for great upclose photos. Here, our native Osoberry blossoms shelter a tiny spider as an umbrella. Doesn't it know that Altostratus don't rain? https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/3/9/its-not-about-the-clouds monthly 0.5 2018-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1520628727911-B601RRWUEY3K127F5Y1Y/20180309_121840.jpg Blog - It's Not About the Clouds https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/2/26/sideways-plus-5-water monthly 0.5 2018-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519664590183-W2BM8XVE2QZ1XORMWEFQ/IMAG1403.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519665357365-QH98G78APM31GGJCIBLM/Screen+Shot+2018-02-26+at+9.09.28+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ Water droplets are never never never shaped like "Mr. Drippy" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519665375393-A9207FXQUE818EY1J0G7/Screen+Shot+2018-02-26+at+9.09.33+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ Nor are water molecules ever shaped like Mickey Mouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519667370077-TFHGLFS4EL8RXDCI0SHJ/27196-050-866192E1.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519665406567-DMVVF8TW205OJ7EKLCEF/Screen+Shot+2018-02-26+at+9.08.48+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519665099595-U1XHENA8D2USRGEHDXMI/Screen+Shot+2018-02-26+at+9.10.08+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519664678612-ZD0F45DQGYTLV0CJZYC5/mt+rainier.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1519665469520-GWIQU7IUI4KL7Z5UAI19/20180207_113703.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #5 +WATER+ https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/2/1/xf107cjk9t345ooqkbvn0w3i4ejlbc monthly 0.5 2018-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1517532942666-D4V1MLZPD99JZJVHDCK8/3004.jpeg Blog - Send in the Clouds! These stratocumulus beauties--the silver lining of an unsuccessful duck-hunting trip--were captured over Davis, North Carolina. Photo by Matthew Mudd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1517532202967-R72892ECSEVEBYAPZ8RN/IMG_0269.JPG Blog - Send in the Clouds! From a friend visiting Boston this week, I received these heavenly cumulus clouds from the ceiling of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum. So many paintings use clouds to where gods, goddesses, and cupids cavort. This is the "Coronation of Hebe" by 16th-century painter Paolo Veronese. Hebe is the Greek goddess of youth and cupbearer to the gods of Mt. Olympus. Nice work if you can get it! Photo by Anne Kilgannon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1517544636517-H551O2OFTQH7Q56WH6BQ/Screen+Shot+2018-02-01+at+5.22.42+PM.png Blog - Send in the Clouds! Here is a detail of the "Coronation of Hebe" painted long before we knew clouds could not support the weight of one (not to mention five) bodies for a cozy celebration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1517532236111-SPHZVZE631ZIECSRLU5D/AngelWingFeather.jpg Blog - Send in the Clouds! And here, a cirrus fibratus cloud from Vashon Island, WA. It's incredible what forms ice takes in our atmosphere. Photo by Richard Rogers, who named this cloud an "Angel Feather" and has written a book called 100 Words for Rain. Watch a fun video here to learn some of these PNW insider names. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1517533441842-I84GGDEAFXCU030L1I5F/IMG_4877.jpg Blog - Send in the Clouds! Thanks to Emma Amiad of Vashon Island for this photo (and 26 more!), taken near Yakima, WA. When you have a big unobstructed view of the horizon and a flotilla of cumulus humilis and cumulus fractus clouds, it's time for some mind bending. The clouds on the horizon are not lower that the clouds at the top of the photograph. All the gray bases of these clouds are at the same altitude. Yessiree. Each of these clouds formed from rising moist, warm air, which contains invisible water vapor. When that air reaches a certain altitude/temperature, the water vapor cools and condenses into visible water droplets--our cloud. That altitude is known as the "condensation level." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1517533005947-I2E0UI7YQWVDY9DVJ25Z/IMG_5587.jpg Blog - Send in the Clouds! Emma Amiad also sent in this photo of low stratocumulus clouds over Wyoming's Teton Range. Aren't the three window-like holes in the cloud layer striking? Funny how the lack of cloud is what makes this photo so dynamic. Thank you Matt, Anne, Richard, and Emma. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/1/25/what-birds-look-at-the-clouds monthly 0.5 2018-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1516930598869-JAGMQFGCUUALBJI9PTYS/Screen+Shot+2018-01-25+at+4.05.55+PM.png Blog - What birds? Look at the clouds! This is the artwork used for the 1993 Washington Duck stamp by artist Fred Thomas. Nice snow geese, but look at those lovely, moody, brooding stratocumulus clouds! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/1/23/clouds-at-the-cole-gallery monthly 0.5 2018-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1516746567719-RB85KLOIBXGUVH3HNVWH/20180120_134323.jpg Blog - Clouds at the Cole Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1516746341118-0K69NE6XUE88KTN0UUP6/20180120_134405.jpg Blog - Clouds at the Cole Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1516746372402-8WNVS1RRRPS2HHAIHJK5/20180120_134413.jpg Blog - Clouds at the Cole Gallery https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/1/8/pushing-up-the-sky monthly 0.5 2018-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1515457880559-BSOTX70AVKBTVSNN86GC/20180107_161459.jpg Blog - Pushing Up the Sky Illustration by Robert Bruce Inverarity (1909–1999), Washington State Director of the Federal Arts Project from 1936 to 1939 and the Washington Arts Project from 1939 to 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1515460577939-UL92Z66BR56RZ114JF7W/20180108_171443.jpg Blog - Pushing Up the Sky https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2018/1/3/sideways-plus-4-mass monthly 0.5 2018-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1515096295537-HLEG8XE18C96505LKOI4/20171209_112540.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #4 +MASS+ How can a cloud weigh as much as an elephant? 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Chapter 3/Visible explores that question. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508787291135-JP68QTHXNRRSUBM1SXJI/Screen+Shot+2017-10-23+at+12.34.21+PM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #3: +Visible+ "Pure sunlight is not yellow and it does not emanate in lines or triangular rays. Pure sunlight is white and moves in invisible waves. This makes the sun difficult to depict accurately with crayons or any medium." (p. 46) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508783616426-E77OU5IBC3N8LD25UHEP/Screen+Shot+2017-10-23+at+11.33.14+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #3: +Visible+ "That white light was composed of several constituent colors was proven by Isaac Newton in a serious of experiments he conducted with a glass prism between 1666 and 1672. Although nearly 350 years had passed since Newton's discovery, I was happy to rediscover this 'celebrated phenomenon of color' on this morning." (p. 47) (Portrait of Newton by Godfrey Kneller, 1609) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508787627073-JV5KFVGPZ7RIIZHH4CKH/Screen+Shot+2017-10-23+at+12.39.52+PM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #3: +Visible+ "There are plenty of books on 'the art of seeing' but none so perfectly--and uncannily--addressed my problems of seeing the clouds as a book of art and literary criticism by British novelist, Jeanette Winterson." (p. 52) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508785095961-SCQLONID5SD3RJJILJJB/Screen+Shot+2017-10-23+at+11.57.56+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #3: +Visible+ "'Pea souper' struck me as a quaint and colorful British name for the particularly thick fog common in London and elsewhere in the U.K...[but] this naturally occurring fog turned toxic during the Industrial Revolution when the water droplets in fog formed around sulfur dioxide and the soot belched from coal-boring factories and fireplaces." p. 56 Read the story of the Great Smog of 1952 here. [NOTE: Smog is a word combining "SMoke" and fOG."] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508785158604-L6O79R6W1LRSA8852G7J/Stratus.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #3: +Visible+ "Fog is the only cloud you can swim in, though no one mentions this fact or recommends this simple, rare pleasure." p. 57 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508785318096-P9CYCD5OEKKTBB6N6S03/swim+in+stratus+ramp.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #3: +Visible+ "At the crest of the hill leading down to the lake, I felt a smile stretch across my face. There was no lake. There were no docks, no boats, no lake-front houses. It was all fog. All fog except for the wide cement slabs of the public boat ramp. And the brown wooden fishing regulation sign. And the pickup truck." (p. 60) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508785550976-EV6ISO2TO9X45VXQ6BTK/Screen+Shot+2017-10-23+at+12.05.11+PM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #3: +Visible+ Saving the best for last here... PLEASE PLEASE click here to watch Joni Mitchell singing her song "Both Sides Now" on the Mama Cass TV show in 1969. Perhaps unwittingly, Mama Cass is wearing an outfit that shows her uncanny (or unwitting?) understanding of the sunlight and visible spectrum ;) https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/10/2/sideways-plus-cloud monthly 0.5 2017-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506961477393-01U2E5BO5XCYNTXGGW2G/Screen+Shot+2017-10-02+at+9.24.09+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #2: +Cloud+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506965061922-9GOFOHBKCRSDPD7ZBA0E/luke+howard.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #2: +Cloud+ Luke Howard (1772-1864). This man brought order to the chaos of the skies when he introduced the Latin names for the clouds in 1802. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506965461659-XAW7FW3KMOOLIK2CLUOU/Screen+Shot+2017-10-02+at+10.30.31+AM.png Blog - Sideways Plus #2: +Cloud+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506967455121-8A1KLE1VNYFN2BOVSHO9/20171002_105318.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #2: +Cloud+ https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/10/8/why-read-my-book-on-clouds monthly 0.5 2017-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1507502833432-L3W68PKMI6LMKYB7PV8B/20171008_140236.jpg Blog - Why Read My Book on Clouds? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1507503281434-D8605AQCR7H5NRQJ5DOO/20171003_115638.jpg Blog - Why Read My Book on Clouds? https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/9/28/fnm2x94tb7h27d1a82z959nw2v3wqf monthly 0.5 2017-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506648792779-0ZNKXH1399G6V8LII9NU/20170928_092722.jpg Blog - A Sideways Look at Clouds...Launching Tomorrow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506648687007-GRPJRS9HV7S9GHOZGUYN/20170928_092618.jpg Blog - A Sideways Look at Clouds...Launching Tomorrow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506648625290-BWWI65AB4DTWNYMR7HE6/IMG_0792.JPG Blog - A Sideways Look at Clouds...Launching Tomorrow https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/9/28/delightful-says-library-journal monthly 0.5 2017-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506612865751-HS5MH411BU7XD3OCL1E5/Screen+Shot+2017-09-28+at+8.33.56+AM.png Blog - "Delightful" says Library Journal! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506612927136-7YU6VWDTF9DCRTIMEE6L/SidewaysLookAtClouds_WEB+copy.jpg Blog - "Delightful" says Library Journal! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/9/22/sideways-plus-prologue monthly 0.5 2017-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506119996844-Q42OTN6U55RHQPO3CR6F/368699_LoRes.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #1: +Prologue+ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506121817219-7JRZ29I8GYE2W61CAXKV/IMG_0069.JPG Blog - Sideways Plus #1: +Prologue+ "Mackerel Skies" (Altocumulus perlucidus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506122045602-SC06034AZYTU9KPE93TJ/IMG_20170912_181852_322.jpg Blog - Sideways Plus #1: +Prologue+ "Mare's Tails" (Cirrus uncinus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1506122262342-KCJ6XRNM0MAJDA11F6ZL/Cumulonimbus.JPG Blog - Sideways Plus #1: +Prologue+ "Thunderhead" (Cumulonimbus) https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/9/18/talkin-sideways-on-thursday monthly 0.5 2017-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1505768279138-4N1YJRBZJPFKVL5TUMUM/Screen+Shot+2017-09-18+at+1.57.24+PM.png Blog - Talkin' Clouds on Thursday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1505769980800-PJUML2F4FT2161OOAF0M/IMG_3611.jpg Blog - Talkin' Clouds on Thursday https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/9/15/put-your-head-in-the-clouds monthly 0.5 2017-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1505503380945-OQTUP7QKIQAPQ8EV8HDK/IMAG0009.jpg Blog - Put Your Head in the Clouds.... Cumulus congestus clouds building over Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday September 15. Read my new book to find out why you cannot and would not want to spend eternity lounging in one of these clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1505503348923-J7049MCFS12UT3JXP552/SidewaysLookClouds_cover+draft.jpg Blog - Put Your Head in the Clouds.... https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/8/25/ready-for-122-of-cloud-fun monthly 0.5 2017-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1503699564709-V7K56DC9Q7XL6OWHWLTB/20170825_150420.jpg Blog - Ready for 1'22" of Cloud Fun? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1503699896798-ZBVQTDJLYPR2SBXVQ9MC/IMAG5101.jpg Blog - Ready for 1'22" of Cloud Fun? https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/8/18/a-sideways-look-at-clouds monthly 0.5 2017-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1503091284234-A760X0TP6D4LERVAWLEK/20170818_130840.jpg Blog - A Sideways Look at Clouds - If you see something... As I pulled into my driveway this morning after grocery shopping, I noticed a suspicious looking package on my front doorstep. Suspicious because it was about the size of a book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1503090101729-I4IWQV2P64E24QCPFH80/20170818_133236.jpg Blog - A Sideways Look at Clouds - Kneeling down in front of it... I noticed it was from Mountaineers Books in Seattle. I ripped it open and saw those familiar clouds through the bubble wrap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1503090342539-JNYDQSP2EEFOSMMWM948/20170818_133247.jpg Blog - A Sideways Look at Clouds - Yahoo! But the front stoop is no place for this newly minted book (even if the doormat is made of eco-friendly recycled flip-flops). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1503090398465-D3ETUEO4RWF4PBXJLY53/IMG_20170818_132646_067.jpg Blog - A Sideways Look at Clouds - On Cloud Nine After a nine-year gestation period...here is the fruit of my labor (and the labor of the talented staff of Mountaineers Books and lots of knowledgeable meteorologists and cloudspotters. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/7/31/clouds-by-rail monthly 0.5 2017-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542482873-B3UAXU8OE76OEZ3WFMRS/IMAG3091.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542483352-DNFNGD9PB3JLMZH2NX2S/IMAG3109.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542492729-7N6IAC3ABF2EU9IVZYKY/IMAG3118.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542492391-65DB6C1D4D75YYR76Z8S/IMAG3131.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542497514-TGV2I5N0CLG9BDJP553W/IMAG3133.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542498572-RUH8AIQPMXZG0D8L5QUJ/IMAG3135.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542506709-DA971C18T65L75Y2CYCL/IMAG3143.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1501542507804-NQBCNPBLY3SMB9RMNE0W/IMAG3144.jpg Blog - Clouds by Rail https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/7/21/test-your-cloud-iq monthly 0.5 2017-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676658141-PINLU17VU7YR0F6ENKY0/Cumulonimbus.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500675193844-A54G3TE1PCT21MLMMVEQ/Altocumulus+Lenticularis.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500675203251-EKMB68VG27HW3HASWLZI/Altocumulus.JPG Blog - 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Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Cumulus (congestus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676896365-EWMCBU4N0SNBMC63WNH0/Cumulus+mediocris+and+Cirrus.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Cumulus (mediocris) with Cirrus "darts" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500815152390-KH8ED5NIL5HRJZRO8GHI/Cumulus+mediocris.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Cumulus (mediocris) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676910557-OA4BVETHY2S3AKB6MOIA/IMG_0507+copy.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Altocumulus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500815475298-JT6SYSEDSE6YQF9JC6VA/IMG_1175.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Cirrocumulus and Altocumulus (translucidus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676916690-3Z8RLR992GFGZKGEWIFX/Nimbostratus.jpg Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Stratocumulus (formerly Nimbostratus, rain on windshield) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676928416-PPM9LP9U81U12FB7X9SU/Parhelia+in+Cirrus.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Cirrus showing parhelia, an optical phenomenon also known as "sundogs." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500815581617-VN06FF27G1WK4QZJLAY7/Stratocumulus.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Stratocumulus with Cumulus mixed in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676925342-T8K7454ZZKLGA2DOHYZD/Stratus.jpg Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Stratus (fog) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676930669-IKSD7SUHOHPKWAOK1H9A/Stratus2.JPG Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Stratus (formerly fog) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676928939-1P148ZBLFUXAUPEW1YV8/thumb_contrail_1024+copy.jpg Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Cirrocumulus with dissipation trails (disstrails) caused by evaporation of ice in the cloud, likely from aircraft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500676929758-GCLYVGBALXUPAFBA5HC7/thumb_IMG_3946_1024+copy.jpg Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Cumulus (humilis and fractus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500815786130-YNMG92RQY0HD6P28DN72/IMAG5105.jpg Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Nimbostratus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1500816899596-CFRLMC0N8F1FUWPCXSYI/thumb_IMAG4560_1024.jpg Blog - Test Your Cloud I.Q. - Altocumulus (castellanus) https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/7/2/bad-meteorology monthly 0.5 2017-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1499034227251-GY8MMNX57MNAUO18ZFYG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bad Meteorology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1499034921355-U3P0MZD1KS1YLFNJNQCF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bad Meteorology Why all the clouds if it's Blue Skies LLC? Because the sky without clouds is, dare I say, boring. As is a business card. You'll notice clouds used frequently in print media as a backdrop for book or magazine articles even if the subject is not clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1499035168225-8J8SEIHTO5B24LI54A4Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bad Meteorology And how about this friendly li'l guy who misleads school children everywhere? Water droplets are not teardrop shaped. Rain drops are not teardrop shaped. Even tears are not teardrop shaped! Only when water leaks or drips slowly out of a faucet does it resemble this shape. Rain drops are the shape of a hamburger bun--slightly convex on top. But who wants to learn about their watershed or the water cycle from a blue hamburger bun? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1499035455485-A7FML99GCMMQUABW4MZW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bad Meteorology Look at these very dark, scary rain clouds from Seattle. No need to criticize the accuracy of the cloud here (it's "art" on a pair of socks, after all) but I will defend the clouds' reputation by reminding everyone that Seattle, Washington, isn't all that rainy. It's less rainy than Miami and several other U.S. cities. What Seattle has is clouds--not always rain clouds--but clouds. Lots of them. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/6/28/clouds-for-teachers-and-other-fine-people monthly 0.5 2017-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1498698175169-G4BLK1CDZA30VVV1S4B6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Clouds for Teachers Don't forget the clouds when you talk about your watershed! Photo by M.M. 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"Fog Lark" is one of the many nicknames of this endearing seabird that flies from nearshore waters of the Pacific into our coastal forests in low light (most often before sunrise) during the summer and often in the fog. (Art c 2017 by Alexandra Munters) https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/4/27/coming-this-fall monthly 0.5 2017-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1493336836197-Z6FRP1GL9NGQG8O6CJH3/image-asset.png Blog - Coming this Fall! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/3/20/beware-the-cloud monthly 0.5 2017-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1490056711421-GAOFP665TS0MNP7UCA1P/IMAG3927.jpg Blog - Beware the Cloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1490060282724-0X0AHNKN3GW2YIQXA2HC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Beware the Cloud https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/3/10/thank-you-murreleteers monthly 0.5 2017-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1489180960943-ABKYDI3QCPOT8TMK6MX5/IMAG3501.jpg Blog - Thank You, Murreleteers! Yes, it's a Marbled Murrelet as depicted by a second-grade student. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1489180806569-MV0WKW7EPHEFF0FLDHWC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thank You, Murreleteers! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2017/2/6/alt-g-for-the-marbled-murrelet monthly 0.5 2017-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1486427158479-YS89W2TRX94K1TYI7QS5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Help for the Murrelet Marbled Murrelet illustration ©Alexandra Munters 2016 and used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626123060-XZ7X2OKV9N0WZSHQVCEL/Chick+with+Fish.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626188848-LHBJ0ZH6C6JMDYODEBIZ/MAMU_AMunters_signedsketch.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626260889-N4DHH2LUH6HLP540SDE1/Marbled_Murrelet_chick%2C_Brachyramphus_marmoratus_Pengo.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626274318-9X88QXK09G5518TL622O/redblu44-2.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626289537-MMDWEC2U0QNF5J4PYOPT/Marbled-Murrelet-single-egg-Nick_Hatch_US_ForestService.png Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626323962-K6D37P6KHQ6GOF1DBI2P/camochick.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626330540-KIT616P2DMWIFDBX59JA/aukebay_11.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626379250-TW7R6D5EKERIHHNHNCL1/BartleyDive.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626388602-OTPFX3K3NRX2XZM1ZSV9/chickcollar.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626414402-S91ORWL6OTVWAQFZ3GDP/Hamer13.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1487626536130-I6AJOUQ4JC4RLVCSSAJX/IMAG3793.jpg Blog - Help for the Murrelet https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2016/10/29/clay-in-clouds monthly 0.5 2016-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1477757704128-LI5K59RZ1BJIFR1A01TY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Clay in Clouds This plate, made by yours truly, is made of a type of clay called kaolinite. Little did I know that kaolinite plays a critical role in the formation of our high, icy clouds. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2016/10/24/where-are-the-clouds monthly 0.5 2016-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1477326766913-IJCQGRVTWT1JT7QQJSZD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where are the Clouds? October 23 New York Times Magazine featured this article. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1477328078710-SZ24LY4XH4SZUROIUZEO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Where are the Clouds? https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2016/10/18/look-clouds monthly 0.5 2016-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1476835138686-93AO1BL5RBDCXMDPVL4X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look! Clouds! "Rain and Runoff," by Ed Mell (b. 1942). Tacoma Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1476835549244-GTHFGXUG0GM9D1POS3ET/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look! Clouds! "Supreme Moment of Evening," by Curt Walters (b. 1950). Tacoma Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1476835967926-UB611NVRHWN1Z7004V6M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look! Clouds! "A Canyon River with Pines and Figures," by Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918). Tacoma Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1476836366105-6AZHPAKD6SUL9TCJI9V2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look! Clouds! "An Ancient Place," by Bill Schenck (b. 1947) Tacoma Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1476836788362-3LJUOBJZP43POQ9H1GTX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look! Clouds! Forgot to photograph the title card on this one. But the title should be "Altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus undulatus radiatus on the horizon." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1476837716712-9ZZOGTMDTW4P472KA5FE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look! Clouds! "Evening Rays," (detail) by Walter Ufer (1876-1938). Tacoma Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1477024742063-PYQ8AKBTGGRXC0WVQI3N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Look! Clouds! And Paul Horuchi (1906-1999) calls his collage "Rocks," but they could almost be small cumulus clouds floating in the smoggy or sepia-tinted air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1477023444421-CXWSHQIEBFCBGTEVLXRG/IMAG2855.jpg Blog - Look! Clouds! And last, a detail from Kara Walker's "Camptown Ladies" (detail). https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2016/9/22/blog-o-pause monthly 0.5 2016-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1474556015342-YSKX2PHQP6R8PJXJDXK5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blog-o-Pause Double rainbow--sky bling! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2016/6/6/what-managing-murrelets-looks-like monthly 0.5 2016-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1465244605386-PXP3K4WSDD5KE4D6BCLV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Managing Murrelets Looks Like https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1465247002779-RT7YQNEUU9WHPBAR5KM2/Screen+Shot+2016-06-06+at+1.54.31+PM.png Blog - What Managing Murrelets Looks Like https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2016/3/13/o7by8lclm96hft1cmbumqmc7vr5yxe monthly 0.5 2016-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923775415-6PAA5TH8BA3TI6Z2A69M/IMAG1303_1.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923769719-A8N6MFTY2E4UDXSB8QGP/IMAG1298.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923766277-I8TOL1E0G58UY7R2FV8G/IMAG1300.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923774362-YSBERW66O3DSKJC1FCPL/IMAG1301.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923804395-B55HAMNHMMTC0NVSGAQF/IMAG1315_1.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923804454-1EP4INQXRK49NKI8VMAO/IMAG1316_1.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923810641-K3FD4MN4QSXSWYUFUK9C/IMAG1317.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1457923811310-LMLRXIGAGVBKDH0B08E2/IMAG1319.jpg Blog - Why You Can Name These Clouds https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2016/2/12/whyyoucantnametheseclouds monthly 0.5 2016-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1455318426140-VLEZZL8YS9XXXFI9WOSV/IMAG0951.jpg Blog - Why You Can't Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1455318410438-M6QUGE9FBRST5DXCXN5J/IMAG0949.jpg Blog - Why You Can't Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1455318450403-1S4E6XTHYHYGK4ETXTIJ/IMAG0946.jpg Blog - Why You Can't Name These Clouds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1455318469857-X97IS3CERALEREDE4SKQ/IMAG0946_1.jpg Blog - Why You Can't Name These Clouds https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/12/9/reminder-to-look-up monthly 0.5 2015-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1449704193190-UPJ6SMUOLICXM59TROKC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Invitation to Look Up https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/11/17/the-myth-of-a-million-murrelets monthly 0.5 2015-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1447771418148-99EMV7JVBNEGVYB71PJL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Myth of a Million Murrelets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1447772051619-FV4JNMRU7PWWL3OOMAEB/BartleyDivesmall.jpg Blog - The Myth of a Million Murrelets Photo of Marbled Murrelet used with permission. Glenn Bartley Photography https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/11/3/three-keers-for-science monthly 0.5 2015-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1446585068084-HK1TFWRXLZRI2O1UKXUX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Three Keers for Science! Marbled Murrelet in Winter. LInocut by Manke Mistry. Printing and taping of image to marbled composition book by M. Ruth. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/9/30/someone-elses-writing monthly 0.5 2015-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1443619296970-J8T4OG6HB4TZ0X2KN4PX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Someone Else's Writing https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/8/28/i-didnt-see-it-coming monthly 0.5 2015-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776492423-CMLYDDUMR1BBBL0XTLJM/IMG_1519.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776606350-2S3RPAUYD5RBHKDHE6JB/IMG_1522.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776653197-AH9VJ63BQFGVG9NQGRIS/IMG_1525.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776677469-J14WHZW608XL5DET73AL/IMG_1529.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776714850-R45CU0SGG17JLIUJSF7F/IMG_1530.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776745444-KT1J0488MFNWF2UPQGPM/IMG_1531.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776779494-LIJFDYBI91B1F5SHAVSB/IMG_1533.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440776810428-VNOPCG6TS9PESP1LAG85/IMG_1534.JPG Blog - I Didn't See it Coming https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/8/25/murrelet-expert-addresses-board monthly 0.5 2015-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1440558700858-5BPZF74R6LRZ5BMNLNHG/redblu44-2+resize.jpg Blog - Murrelet Expert Addresses Board https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/8/11/a569uwgw8z1oipu376px9rqumna3fz monthly 0.5 2015-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1439492830686-SZIVAITGJ1IIZ9ZGT2OS/Ultimate+Ocean+Book+cover.jpg Blog - The Ultimate Ocean Book Turns 20 https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/6/29/jellyfish-clouds-clouds-of-jellyfish monthly 0.5 2015-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1435586812517-EFHX8Y5SN4Q6INGCO5E3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jellyfish Clouds, Clouds of Jellyfish Firday's cirrus uncinus clouds over Olympia resembled a parade of jellyfish. These are high, icy clouds with a puffy head and trailing ice crystals falling out in "tentacles" behind. The tentacles are called virga--a type of precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1435587110956-BQ7XN3FCXWTF8K08IF1P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jellyfish Clouds, Clouds of Jellyfish A lion's mane jellyfish in Budd Inlet. A "puffy" head (called a bell) and long tentacles behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1435587254465-5GL3H453O6WQKRZ59E59/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jellyfish Clouds, Clouds of Jellyfish "Clouds" of moon jellies in Budd Inlet. Read more about these here in my 2010 blog post. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/6/18/sunset-over-olympia monthly 0.5 2015-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1434635090666-AS1BQPHT27U7QANGKN6T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sunset Over Olympia https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/6/3/cirrocumulus-icy-sky-bling monthly 0.5 2015-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345268379-B5K29XUXX1VJ31VXM5YN/IMG_2288.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345269145-GGCZV1UHWBFUN3V60G47/IMG_2289.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345214671-6RNR5N018WCAAXZ8UEIO/IMG_2301.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345224281-ILFBB7PRVANB9FAY5VG2/IMG_2305.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345274953-WV6IKWY1632HPSUIHXH8/IMG_2290.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345274786-ATVG9D0IEFPDIE8337I1/IMG_2291.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345295955-I73K1EPGSOIPOCB4LD3A/IMG_2295.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345296305-W4FKL81B5KMZQUI5APNL/IMG_2296.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1433345302232-XBB34OAUXTK76XS6F3L8/IMG_2297.JPG Blog - Cirrocumulus--Icy Sky Bling https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/5/27/cliff-mass-on-june-gloom monthly 0.5 2015-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1432742559592-SQXI91YXO6QSJYMN73HL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cliff Mass on June Gloom https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2015/5/22/thermals monthly 0.5 2015-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1432337096734-FDXSG3PZU8NGZ2WY06DR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thermals Simple, deceptively simple. Yellow oozy magma becomes globuless or blobs that rise up from earth and become egg yolks and then mashed potatoes (above). Though described in the caption as "blobs," the illustration (below) shows thermals as straight columns rising up to form a cloud. 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What could be saved by the 2% tax city residents voted to establish to help fun the acquisition of 500 acres of wildlife habitat and future parkland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1413674524229-O6VK2XLZR8922A64AL9A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We Are the 2 % https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/10/12/8y8a7hn4q89mfee26wjl90cdas235c monthly 0.5 2014-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1413167424556-R9JOZ4CBFTXEQ6DBFRN2/IMG_1156.JPG Blog - The Forest Needs a Voice--Yours The future of 150 acres of woods is at stake Tuesday night. 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Learn to Love Scrawny Petunias https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/8/12/pyrocumulus-clouds monthly 0.5 2014-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1407870226464-IR0B41PYSHB6PE71TTIP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pyrocumulus Clouds Smoke and heat from 70-acre "Lost Ridge" wildfire on Sunday generated pyrocumulus clouds above it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1407870915178-829AVR3PDXLMDUD6NPRQ/IMG_0579.JPG Blog - Pyrocumulus Clouds Pyrocumlus clouds forming in the hot, smokey air rising and condensing above the wildfire. Photo b MM Ruth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1407871079041-ZEDPZ387IDR5CHDNI5H4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pyrocumulus Clouds Pyrocumulus clouds--you can see the olumn of gray wildfire smoke in the center of the clouds. Photo by MM Ruth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1407871130338-NH2J6GA2KD54S2XSIA3L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pyrocumulus Clouds This is the sign posted at the trailhead to Greenwater and Echo Lake...and greeted us on our return hike from the lake! The trail was closed, then the campground (Corral Pass) where we were camping was evacuated, then five-mile road to Corral Pass was closed on Monday afternoon. 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No. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1405633055426-247C0PE1SZ5B9PR4V70T/IMG_0300.JPG Blog - Hands-on Cloud Identification It's not altocumulus, mid-level clouds with individual cloudlettes the size of your thumbnail when you hold it at arm's length 30 degrees above the horizon. (Some say altocumulus are between one and three fingers wide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1405633160724-187550OA95DWAAFQU1OG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hands-on Cloud Identification It's not cirrocumulus, higher clouds with cloudlettes the size of your pinky nail (or rice grains some say). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1405633755321-Z8JYTT3EFRRJL47EUQKY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hands-on Cloud Identification They are larger than my fist....so they could be cumulus or stratocumlus but.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1405633970247-LJZMP3X4WMXH036ZCH6V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hands-on Cloud Identification ...these are even bigger than my very large outstretched hand. The clouds don't have well-defined edges, flat bases, or the look of cumulus clouds. This leaves stratocumulus--a large, lumpy cloud that forms at low altitudes and is often formed as layered stratus clouds (fog) rise as they move inland over low hills. These clouds come in a variety known as stratocumulus fractus, which are the smaller (factions) of the stratocumulus cloud as it breaks apart or evaporates. Sure enough, when I checked the National Weather Service's forecast discussion, the morning cloud cover was described as "low clouds" and "stratus" and were predicted to rise, evaporate, and give way to mostly sunny skies. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/7/14/m3eehm9xi1sx5i58bz8xkhhreafzit monthly 0.5 2014-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1405351463438-LZ8C1CQYR2WDT5A59HO1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Convective Debris The weekend's turbulent skies made it a challenge to identify the types of clouds over South Puget Sound. 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Just one of the off-shore colonies of Common Murres (and few cormorants) near the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon. You could watch, hear, study, photograph, or paint the 65,000 murres here all day long! 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No take-out. Delivery only. A young murrelet is nest bound and relies on its parents to catch and delivery its meals: small fish the chick will swallow whole and headfirst. 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This big-leaf maple branch could hold a resting hobbit or two in the bed of moss and licorice ferns. 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These seabirds are moving in closer to shore in the Pacific Northwest for the Summer 2014 breeding season. I'll be moving around the Pacific Northwest this month to share the tale of this fascinating and endangered seabird. See this month's events below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1398809353272-8ITQSVN28GXXL9DNLLIB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Marbled Murrelets in May Wow! I'm on top of Jimmy Carter! https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/4/24/sntwd5xhpld6ms1cq1ywyn3gvlh1a7 monthly 0.5 2014-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1398365479963-7282C05DYM6U1SX2FJLO/IMG_9502.JPG Blog - What Are We Talking About? This Douglas-fir exceeds the >80 cm dbh standard for an old-growth tree...yet it is not part of an old-growth forests nor would most people consider it old growth. The person behind the tree does. Photo by MM Ruth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1398366684907-YGWHXXWWZEV3CEXXFHB8/IMG_9456.JPG Blog - What Are We Talking About? This hundred-year-old tree doesn't make the >80 cm dbh cut (which translates as 100 Inches in circumference), yet it is an important part of an old-growth forest. This is along the Lewis River in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, WA. Photo by MM Ruth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1398368950660-1BLKD5467SP7YN7RZDOH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Are We Talking About? A young marbled murrelet chick is a vulnerable creature during its month-long development on the nest. This seabird depends on the coniferous coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest--forests we call old-growth, mature, old, older, late successional, and ancient. These terms may be synonymous. Or not.A precise definition is elusive, but critical to this threatened species. Photo by Tom Hamer, Hamer Environmental. Used with permission. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/4/23/april-is-national-poetry-month monthly 0.5 2014-04-23 https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/4/4/3dmr5hg8ie6pqcpokf8qprijcqarl3 monthly 0.5 2014-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1396621181117-XXSE7J0BOD3VHD3D3DYC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What is Old-Growth? This stump is all that's left of a western red-cedar that was more than 20 feet in diameter and over 1000 years old. Now another roadside attraction on I-5, this tree once grew along Portage Creek near Mt. Vernon, Washington. Is this the size of old-growth trees a nesting marbled murrelet needs? (Photo by N.D. Ruth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1396757752622-P6TBTS6AQ9SUMKF3R3XP/IMG_6815.JPG Blog - What is Old-Growth? Seems like a lot of work to get an accurate measurement of a tree's diameter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1396624140930-UYV3Y6QP8WUK6I1SVC1O/IMG_9178.JPG Blog - What is Old-Growth? Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old-growth tree--it's been 200 long years, will you still hug me? This hemlock's 100-inch circumference qualifies it as an old-growth tree--but is this tree habitat? Photo by N.D. Ruth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1396625298264-0AF2JAFPWC1BYTPGHBUH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What is Old-Growth? This is an old-growth stand of western red-cedar, western hemlock Douglas-fir, and Sitka spruce in Rainbow Falls State Park, in the Chehalis River Valley southwest of Olympia, Washington. ( Photo my MM Ruth) https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/3/31/9kjbzizsdmjez853e5o87cofgeph6e monthly 0.5 2014-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1396301166612-S4NXEI96KULM2BWGMNS5/image-asset.png Blog - UW Dawgs and the Marbled Murrelet The Marbled Murrelet really wants to be a team player. Dawgbird image by MMRuth. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/3/25/marbled-murrelets-are-heading-inland monthly 0.5 2014-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1395789166741-163UJW6BO5X5P8RT5XSR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Marbled Murrelets Are Heading Inland Visitors in California State and National Parks see plenty of these signs in campgrounds, picnic areas, and at trailheads. The sign is part of the effort to reduce predation on marbled murrelets nests in the popular "big trees" parks where these birds nest. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/3/20/the-take-away monthly 0.5 2014-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1395353344621-UBPF9L8KSNRYEMMPWGVA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Be a Writing Warrior A character, a setting, a beginning, middle, and end. These ingredients--and a classic opening line--is all students need to write a first draft of a story in 15 minutes. This zany story has 15 co-authors from five elementary schools in the Aberdeen, Washington, school district. 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When I asked him how he achieved his victory, he said, "I just did it." https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/3/17/hm17reold8tfsvyybf12nf8n0t1ftg monthly 0.5 2014-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1395104491862-822700XDSAFZPBUGDW3C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Marbled Murrelets in the Legislature The short 60-day legislative session in Olympia left legislators squeezed to get many bills through the House and Senate. The bills covered in this posting have direct impacts on the fog lark aka the marbled murrelet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1395106376619-AMMWO9G9Z9V5SVJHU4TZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Marbled Murrelets in the Legislature Pigeon Guillemots, a common bird in Puget Sound, urges you to speak up for their imperiled "cousins," the marbled murrelet and other seabirds and their habitats. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/3/6/marbled-murrelets-and-dnr-clear-cutting monthly 0.5 2014-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1394116021239-0QNNKGPYHHP3SLDJPB81/CIMG2216.JPG Blog - Marbled Murrelets and DNR Clear-cutting Are these the "last acres" of the old-growth forests for marbled murrelets? If not...where are they? Photo by MM Ruth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1394125006286-R0E8RJYA1KUIS7JL51UC/Photo+of+marbled+murrelet+on+its+nest+courtesy+Hamer+Environmental Blog - Marbled Murrelets and DNR Clear-cutting A juvenile marbled murrelet on its nest in the forest. Photo courtesy Hamer Environmental. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/2/27/forage-fish-on-x-files monthly 0.5 2014-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1393516212759-FD20UDXHN6ZFYPJKZ9SN/chickfish.jpg Blog - Forage Fish on X Files Marbled Murrelet chicks live on forage fish during their monthlong development on the nest. 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Now that's a fan! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1389927054845-LDI83E1O0ZJZKQY0K17Q/IMG_2862.jpg Blog - My Favorite Book Reviewers Though the paper engineer should really get the credit for this reaction, this reader's excitement makes me smile. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/1/14/the-marbled-murrelet-diet monthly 0.5 2014-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1389733086991-M1WEIFDFGJK7LL2HJ15O/IMG_8817.JPG Blog - The Marbled Murrelet Diet Sunday night I found myself caught between a smelt and a rare bird. I gave up eating sushi (mostly) since writing my book on the marbled murrelet, but now I have a different problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1389734419363-2MA5ACH46JT8YYUJB03Q/IMG_8822.JPG Blog - The Marbled Murrelet Diet The light breading of the smelt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1389734517292-OVIR2FE2KP31YEFKED0Y/IMG_8827.JPG Blog - The Marbled Murrelet Diet The frying in olive oil of half the smelt without heads as another than myself wasn't sure he wanted to eat the whole fish the way a murrelet would. Note: these smelt are probably twice the size of any a murrelet could handle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1389734811054-5BHCO7Z349IXSL1X2YDB/IMG_8835.JPG Blog - The Marbled Murrelet Diet Two fried smelt on a bed of local greens. Please ignore the exotic lemon wedge. These fish were delicious and entirely edible. But still... https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2014/1/10/window-crashing-birds monthly 0.5 2014-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1389386605229-DU9U2CFQM8G9RCHT0SVQ/IMG_8727.JPG Blog - Window Crashes and Birds The end of a Varied Thrush, one of my favorite birds, at my window this morning. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/12/11/marbled-murrelets-and-elliott-state-forest monthly 0.5 2014-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1386813677474-CNMSSOTPTS61411GLNVV/juvenileonnest.jpg Blog - Marbled Murrelets in the News Photo of a juvenile marbled murrelet on its nest courtesy Tom Hamer, www.hamerenvironmental.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1386830024734-SUY6YXN2W7ISKJ3RQHIM/photo%282%29.JPG Blog - Marbled Murrelets in the News Tidal Turbines drew a full house at Orca Books last night in Olympia for the monthly Science Cafe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1386829347510-YK5RTHUOLPEM6XAN6XZB/IMG_8140.JPG Blog - Marbled Murrelets in the News UW Energy Engineer Brian Polagye at the Science Cafe in Olympia   https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/12/10/tis-the-marbled-murrelet monthly 0.5 2014-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1386724468435-U15CP1M1YL72RZ1W8VOT/IMG_8137.JPG Blog - 'Tis the Marbled Murrelet https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/12/6/marbled-murrelets-and-green-energy monthly 0.5 2014-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1386693555984-262NU75X61YCD4FO2C5V/Mozino+1.jpg Blog - Marbled Murrelets and Green Energy The Marbled Murrelet by Atanasio Echeverria in Noticias de Nutka: An Account of Nootka Sound in 1792, by Jose Mariano Mozino. Photo by Maria Mudd Ruth.   https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/11/25/thanksgiving-fungus-and-poem monthly 0.5 2013-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1385427710179-419PQ6SRIUI37S2PAA4L/IMG_7899.JPG Blog - Thanksgiving Fungus and Poem "Turkey tail" fungus...just in time for Thanksgiving. Photo by Maria Ruth. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/11/21/dr-dale-ireland-cloud-chronicler monthly 0.5 2013-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1385042451675-WOR3S8CT1XXT2A1W6CG3/IMG_7623.JPG Blog - Dr. Dale Ireland--Cloud Chronicler Photo by Maria M. Ruth https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/11/16/marbled-murrelet-cookies-the-story monthly 0.5 2013-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1384659631106-P57CUE1GW5I4ZGWCWHPJ/IMG_7467.JPG Blog - Marbled Murrelet: The Cookie The breeding plumage of a marbled murrelet is described as "chocolate brown" and "cinnamon brown." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1384660469173-TF4ZJBA8P1H6MZPYZXZZ/IMG_7453.JPG Blog - Marbled Murrelet: The Cookie What was I thinking? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1384716261104-3P7XABN1WE3IG1XV5A0F/IMG_7829.JPG Blog - Marbled Murrelet: The Cookie Perhaps someone can make a cookie cutter to look like this marbled murrelet chick, made famous in 1974 by being the first of this species to be discovered on its nest. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/11/6/marbled-murrelet-rare-bird-talks monthly 0.5 2014-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1383767178610-EGRYCHO99LV99VHLUJYY/chickfish.jpg Blog - Marbled Murrelet & Rare Bird Talks Illustration by Paul Harris Jones from Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet  https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/11/5/science-math-and-marbled-murrelets monthly 0.5 2014-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1383691569195-GF2PMPOFIHZRZ143GZ5M/IMG_7514.JPG Blog - Science, Math, and Marbled Murrelets We have logged and lost 80-95% of our original old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. 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Such veils drift in the ocean for days and can reach 60 feet in length. Credit: New England Aquarium via LiveScience.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1380298820700-080UBWNXQDL9UOC4PL1F/willamette.jpg Blog - The Shape of Beginnings & Endings This LIDAR (Laser Interferometry Detection and Ranging) image shows the historic channels and meanderings of a section of the Willamette River in Oregon. Credit: Dan Coe/ Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Order a poster version here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1381627544118-O6NDC67CGOC2893UL8JX/VelaSupernova.jpg Blog - The Shape of Beginnings & Endings Filamentous remnant of an explosion of the Vela Supernova 10,000-12,000 years ago. Credit: Earth Science Picture of the Day  https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/10/9/marbled-murrelets-in-olympia-1 monthly 0.5 2014-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1381385470175-7VIX0WPWWUJEFNKILGJ6/cover1.jpg Blog - Marbled Murrelets in Olympia! This is not a cartoon, but a sketch of an actual marbled murrelet chick with it's spiky juvenal feathers developing. Art by Paul Harris Jones. https://www.mariaruthbooks.net/mariaruthbooks/2013/9/22/old-growth-forests monthly 0.5 2013-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1379864076623-5NLNHCL4VU91ZUXSD1UG/download.jpg Blog - Old-growth Forests Get yourself a copy of this important book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1379865664791-DKV678PZXGRHD9NWKIES/IMG_7249.JPG Blog - Old-growth Forests Trees identified (old-growth western red-cedar), photograph taken (to show ME in relation to the trees), and now posted....I have Fowled up. 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No one would argue that this tree is not big. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1379211683812-8M1L8V5RFYRYJFTFUNYN/CIMG2186.JPG Blog - How to Photograph a Big Tree I asked my friend to stand behind the tree. She balked and said if she stood behind the tree no one would be able to see her. I agreed and then told her to stand a little behind the tree. See how much bigger the tree looks?  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1379211780883-87YE1DGLHF5UX16CPPT5/CIMG2187.JPG Blog - How to Photograph a Big Tree And then I told her to stand a little more behind the tree. 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Murrelets - Downy Chick Dappled and drowsy and ready to eat...a marbled murrelet chick is left alone after just one to two days of brooding by its parents. Feeding visits are short and occur from one to eight times a day--at dawn, dusk, and midday. Fish are swallowed whole and headfirst. Photo courtesy Tom Hamer/Hamer Environmental https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508523180701-9LAM8KDEA4F6JXIFRR5M/juvenileonnest.jpg Marbled Murrelets - Juvenile on Nest A juvenile marbled murrelet on its nest shortly before fledging. Photo courtesy Tom Hamer/Hamer Environmental https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520a51d0e4b0f89d3274989e/1508523229400-ZW14COJCY9FNJDSNFOBS/fledgling.jpg Marbled Murrelets - Fledgling A young murrelet seems to fledge on instinct alone: without practice flights or guidance from its parents, it leaves its nest and flies to the ocean alone to begin its life at sea. Breeding age is believed to be around three years. 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In the 1973 edition of Lakes of Washington, the estimate for number of natural and man-made lakes and ponds and reservoirs is 7,864. In the next few years, I hope to explore, study, and swim in as many as I can. This “Lakes” page of my website will include information from my blog postings, but will feature them in alphabetical order. Plus a few stray non-lakes at the end. 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