Jennifer surveys the creek

sisters look for gold panning sites

Sister chath looks at fish, or something

beware sisters with cameras--they WILL shoot you!

This is a great picture for so many reasons,
but my favorite is how the green of the
foliage reflects in the creek.

Here's the dirty root portion of a huge, recently
toppled tree. This ball of mud was about 7 feet high.

Life finds a way. Here are plants growing on snags in the creek.

What berries are these? Jane and
Jennifer would not let chath taste, to find out.

A clark's nutcracker, at crater lake.
These birds were all around the crater.