Volcano

First let me orient you to this picture. It is taken from the street in front of out house last week. That is the side of our house and the deck you see is on the second floor of the back of our house. We live on a hillside and the back of our house faces toward a valley which contains Anchorage. Start by looking at the horizon on the left of the picture. First you wil see some trees both without and with leaves poking above the horizon. Those trees are actually down the street from us on our hillside. Continue about half an inch to the right and you will see a couple blips above the horizon. That is the downtown part of Anchorage...about 15 miles from us. Continue traveling with the horizon to the rightfor just under an inch. If you look closely, you will see a white mountain jutting straight up into the sky. That is a volcano. Redoubt volcano, I believe. It is approximately 120 miles from our house, past Anchorage, across Cook inlet. It doesn't look like much to you probably because I don't have a strong enough lense to capture it well. But it is over 10000 feet high and totally white with snow. When the sky is clear...usually toward the evening so this was a rare daytime appearance, we can see this as clear as anything. It is truly a beautiful and breathtaking sight. From my kitchen window, I can look out while cooking and cleaning up from dinner and see this volcano. Our neighbors told us it was there but we couldn't see it for probably a week after we arrived due to all the rain. When it showed up one night, I was speechless. There really is an active volcano within sight of our house! Wow, did I ever really feel like I was in another world. If you continue to follow the horizon past the volcano, you will see a little dip in the horizon. That is part of Cook Inlet. Most days we can see some of the water in the inlet, but it is just a sliver so it won't come out in a photgraph. So that is the southwesterly view from our home. Come see it for yourself.