The picture above is of the Point Wilson light house, which is located in Port Townsend, Washington, on the north Olympic Peninsula. The picture on the left is of Lake Crescent and the road to Forks, Washington, which is located on the “west end” of the Olympic Peninsula.

Click here to read some articles that I've written. Soon there will also be a link here to a page of some of my photography. I took this photograph just below the view point, at the end of the trail leading from the parking lot just before the first tunnel, on the Hurricane Ridge road, in Olympic National Park.

Click here to read about the old logging steam locomotive by the entrance to Tillicum Park in Forks, Washington on the “west end” of the Olympic Peninsula. The locomotive is a Pacific Coast class, 3-truck Shay, built in 1930 by Lima Locomotive Works, Incorporated, in Lima, Ohio.

Click here to read the genealogy page that I have started. The woman in the photograph cranking the Model-T Ford is my grandmother. I first became interested in genealogy in 1997 after visiting an old abandoned farm house, in northern Minnesota, that belonged to two of my great-grandparents.

I made this animated graphic of an adult female humming bird and it's young, at their nest, by video taping them and then capturing a couple frames from the video. The frames were converted to 8-bit (256-color) graphics and then saved as an animated GIF file using Microsoft GIF Animator.

Click here to download a VRML world terrain model of Mount Rainier and of Mount St. Helens. I created each VRML world with a USGS digital orthophoto draped over a USGS DEM. Each VRML world can be viewed as a full screen interactive 3D object, using a VRML browser or plug-in enabled web browser.