This seems like a highly appropriate, cheerful, and punny photo with which to end the year: a mosaic of wildlife around a Cascade spring to create a setting for a water fountain, in the lower entryway of Timberline Lodge. It doesn't hurt that everything here is made of geological materials. There's the raw andesite/dacite blocks in the walls, fired clay in the tiles of the floor and mosaic, glass in the enamel of the mosaic tiles, with various metallic salts for pigment, and copper and zinc alloyed to make the brass of the drinking fountain fixture itself. (It's possible this is bronze; I've never really been confident in telling the two apart. If that is the case, it's an alloy of copper and tin.) And, of course, once tonight's festivities have concluded, what's the next major annual event we're all looking forward to? Why, spring, of course!
Update, 1:30 PM, 12/31/14: The animals, clockwise from upper left, are
deer, bear, wild turkey, dragonfly, salmon, and skunk. The plants, in same order, are maybe huckleberry, but not sure,
rhododendron, Douglas fir (probably), trillium, and skunk cabbage.
Happy New Year, all! See you on the flip side.
Photo unmodified. October 10, 2012.
FlashEarth Location (approximate).
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