More work with photo editing filters. I took the subject photo a couple of years ago with an early model Sony Cybershot. I hope to get back out to the same spot very soon with my recently aquired Olympus DSLR. Most editing programs have a good selection of filters some of which I like much better than others. This photo has been texturized with a filter Photoshop calls Sandstone. CHANGE 1: I originally texturized both the picture and the frame. This has been changed to just show Sandstone texturization on the picture. If interested, this one really needs to be opened to full-sized view. So, what are we looking at here? At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in the Northwest state of Washington erupted. Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. Nearly 230 square miles of forest was blown down or buried beneath volcanic deposits. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments. Thanks for all your thought provoking comments on my recent postings. Bill P.S. The smashed tree remnants in the foreground were pulverized by the blast from the eruption. My POV is about 10 miles away from the summit as I recall. To this day there are tens of thousands of tree trunks laying neatly side-by-side in a uniform pattern away from the direction of nature's blast. AND the valley between my POV and the mountain is now 600 feet shallower thanks to the pyroclastic flow of molten debris and mud from the top of the mountain.