Vacation log Day 2: Crater Lake

When you're looking for the soul of the west, as I said before I came
on this trip; just stop, be silent for a minute, it's right there in
front of you.

New insights:
* Pumice stone is lighter than styrofoam
* Some flowers look like dusters for cleaning blinds
* Twisted snags always remind me of Ansel Adams, who captured the soul
of the west better than anyone. Maybe he is the soul of the west.

You can be freezing on Labor Day weekend if you have to stand in line
for an hour in the morning shade. Frozen enough to numb each one of
your fingers even with gloves.

Line theory. Humans evolve to this kind of behavior when collected.

Political fish live in Crater Lake - William Steele , political
candidate and advocate for Crater Lake to have national park status.
More people would visit, he figured, if they could go fishing.

Mutant snakes live on Wizard Island in Crater Lake - black garters
that have evolved without their yellow stripdes so as not to get
picked off by birds (not like the ones under our front steps).

1000 letters and continued advocacy - and William Steele made a
national park happen. Took him 17 years, that was 1902. I am always
inspired by letter writers.