April 20th – the mountain put on quite a display – gorgeous blue day – huge plumes of steam (little ash) – all of it heading south of us, so we were again blessed.
location: North Road – between Kenai and Nikiski
time: a little after 1 pm – during my lunch hour
location: same spot North Road (those are setnetter boats you see)
time: just about 10 pm – sun had gone down as I drove out to take the shot
Following day? Redoubt barely was puffing – looked like cartoonish smoke signals. Yesterday and today? Cloudy – no visibility. Glad I went out and got the shots when I could.
Enjoy!
I bookmarked the Alaska Observatory site. They have some excellent shots there too. Someone said that it was now raining and the ash will be on their garden. Is it good for gardens if absorbed?
hi, Bonnie – we haven’t seen any ash (or not much) here in the Kenai/Soldotna area. Most of it has gone south towards Homer or north of Anchorage.
It’s my understanding that it is good for gardens. Not sure what components in it make it so . . . just have heard gardeners say so –
last Redoubt eruption in 89 – folks gathered up ash and put it into tubes – took lots of pics of the major eruption – made small photo albums, attached the tubes and sold them to tourists.
if we ever had any ash fall I might think of doing that. 😉