Mid-Atlantic Gardening: MidAt plant shopping June 2013 ..., 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Sally, thanks! I will put it in the Folder called "Wallpaper". It holds favorite
pictures I use on my DESKTOP.

The only way I can describe your photo is----SERENITY.

Do you save amazing photos to use on your desktop?


When I was in AK in July, 2007 to visit my sister, our cousin and her DH
also came there from Latvia. My sister footed the whole bill for them.
She can afford it! They had always wanted to see AK.
Must seem like a fairy tale Land when you live as far from it as Latvia.

Anyway--one of the treats we had was to fly over all the Glaciers
in a small, 4-seater plane piloted by a young woman.
Obviously--she does this regularly for tourists.

The sights below were breath-taking....the pictures turned out amazing--
given the fact that they were taken through a small window of the plane.

I will show you my favorites--and, yes!, you can use any of them too.

1--The largest glacier fly-over. The black lines are where 2 glaciers
have met and become one. The striations (???--HA!) are deep crevices
of the Glacier. Hundreds of feet deep. That is why it is so dangerous to walk on them.

2--The end of some Multi glaciers --they all are melting and forming, first, a silt laden
stream that becomes a small river and, eventually, flow into lakes, which flow into the sea.

3--End of the road of a multi-glacier. This was my all time favorite photo.
You can see the wide silt-laden stream before it enters the river.

4--This shows the multi-small glaciers feeding into a large glacier.

5--The only shot I got of the "Harding Ice Field". The snow is thousands of feet deep--
It is the "mother" of all the glaciers. The rocks you see are the tops of high mountains.
Does that give you an idea?
Google "Harding Ice Field"---you will learn the fantastic history of it.

OK! end of show.....G.