These are photos by Jason Kloster, a WWU alumnus who was flying and taking photos last week. He is a friend of mine. When he was a student, he was my first leadership student and volunteer to Western's Leadership Advantage program on the the co-curricular side, the program which I direct on a day to day basis. These photos are wonderful and give a different flavor for where it is I live and work.
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| This is Lake Whatcom. My condo is in Sudden Valley which adjoins this lake. Over half of my commute each day is along the shore of this lake, there to the right. |
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| This is where I live. That's the golf course to the right. Part of Lake Whatcom, which is a really big lake, is showing there to the left. That little lake off to the lower right is called Lake Louise, probably named after the big Lake Louise in BC, Canada, so the Canadians who were buying homes and condos here in the seventies, would feel like they arrived home on the weekend or in the summer after driving down from Vancouver to their second place. |
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| You see Lake Louise better in this shot. I go by it daily going in and out of my neighborhood. If you look closely, here by the bottom of the picture, you can see the blue dot that is the pool amidst the condos where I live. My unit is maybe three buildings away from that pool. |
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| This is a view of some of Bellingham. That forest to the right is the Arboretum, and the WWU campus adjoins it. Campus sits up on a hill and there's good views of Bellingham Bay, and on clear days, the San Juan Islands and Lummi Tribal Lands. That's B.C., Canada very nearby, in the top of the picture. |
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| This gives you an idea of how campus sits up over the bay. |
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| Wish I could draw an arrow on the photo. The Viking Union where I work in is in the upper left near the top end of campus. |
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| Views of Mount Baker in the North Cascades near Bellingham are pretty much breath-taking regardless. So too with this aerial shot that Jason took. |
