We took advantage of the day off and drove up to Bellingham to see Jeff and Bethany.  We started with a delicious lunch.  Jeff grilled some burgers and corn, while I let Jenna crawl around on the lawn, which she seemed to enjoy quite a bit.  The burgers were great, and the corn was so good it didn't need butter.

 While we ate our dessert of ice cream and cookies, we talked about our options for the day and finally decided to head toward Mt. Baker on the Mt. Baker highway.  Due to the distance and our time constraints, we knew we probably wouldn't make it all the way there, but they knew of some cool spots on the way that were a bit closer.

One the way, we decided on our actual destination, some falls near the mountain that they had visited before.  It was spectacular.  The whole area was amazing.  The scale of everything was staggering.  We hiked down some trails to get a better view of the falls.  Becky and I traded off carrying Jenna and the camera so I could carry Jenna down the steep parts, then trade off so I could get some shots.  Some of them turned out really well and really look like postcards.  I got a huge panorama of the waterfall itself (right).  For some reason, I like to leave the jagged edges on there.  I might make a cleaned-up version though since it turned out so well.  I'm pretty sure most of you will want to move here after seeing some of these pictures.

I really wanted to just run wild through the forest and become a feral human.  I found a huge stone in the woods that was turned upright and covered with moss.  I'm pretty sure it had something to do with the plot of Halo 3.  I'm also pretty sure that there were many sasquatches watching us from the woods.  I'm fairly certain that they are hidden in a few of my pictures.

I also experimented with a technique called wiggling which uses 2 shots with different perspectives to provide a semi-3d effect to give you some depth that I don't think is conveyed through the photos.  I think my 2 perspectives are too exaggerated.  It kind of gives me a headache.

On the way out, we visited the ranger station where there was the usual ranger station information and a really big cross-section of an extremely old tree. I don't remember how old it was, but it was old.

So, visit my Labor Day 2006 photoset to see all the pictures. (be sure and click through the various links above as well to see some cool new features of Flickr that allow you to see where pictures were taken. (as well as some other neat links))