Blue Sky Gallery -John Wagenet: Mt. Saint Helens

"On my first Wagenet Worlds Note Cards selling trip I stopped near Mt. St. Helens to photograph and sketch. Overlooking Silver Lake it was peaceful and serene with nothing to indicate her future volatility but a layer of ash on everything.

When I returned to Mill Valley, I began to paint. In three weeks, as I applied the last brush strokes, the news reported that she had erupted in a blast of ash and stone. "