Damn thing is too small
DAMN YOU IMAGE SHACK!
Heh heh...Image Shack was too much for you, eh? You copied the thumbnail picture instead of the picture to which the thumbnail links. One might say that you
Kerry'D it up. =P
P.S. What Kerry lacks in football, he makes up for in
fútbol:
Fútbol and an ability to not bungle the federal response to a national disaster at the expense of thousands of lives, but I digress...
As for the background image, I photographed that when I went backpacking in Olympic National Park last summer. The Olympic Peninsula is one of the most beautiful places in the world--home, for instance, to the longest stretch of protected Pacific coastline in America, and home to the northern hemisphere's only temperate rainforest.
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure I'm living in a temperate rainforest here in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Just a glance out the window confirms this.)
Vancouver, B.C. is not a temperate rainforest. You would know if you lived in a rainforest--which is to say, the Olympic Peninsula rainforest areas bring in an
average of 140 inches of rain a year...100 more than your city. You and I live in a temperate marine climate, which I have also heard called a "marine west coast climate," because it is a climate unique to the west coasts of continents due to the trade winds and ultimately the planetary rotation. The marine climate is also rare in the world, but Olympic's temperate rainforests are wholly unique in this hemisphere, and extremely rare even in terms of the entire world. The difference between a temperate marine climate and a temperate rainforest is that the latter is a subgroup of the former and is marked by its monumental rainfall.
Here we go:
This page is a short, easy read on the North American temperate rainforest.
