"The Ice Age Flood"

A video story of the Montana megafloods, featuring Byron Pickering's painting of "Glacial Lake Missoula." Music, courtesy of Tim Janis, www.timjanis.com. For more information about the painting, go to www.pickeringstudio.com.

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[pickeringart]

Greetings to you! I just checked out your video of Jump River Falls. We used to picnic there on bright summer Sundays and lounge in the deep pools between the rapids. I have pleasant memories of those times. Thank you for your comment on GLM.

[pickeringart]

I'm glad you're enjoying "Glacial Lake Missoula." That would have been a beautiful and yet terrifying time in the history of the earth. Had I painted it with more reality, there would have been only a frozen waste instead of waves. That should trigger even a wilder imagination.

Thanks for writing...

Byron

[pickeringart]

Hi!  Thanks for taking the time to comment and for the kind words!

Byron

[janwdlmz]

dang cool vid!!

[JSTONE9352]

Very nice, I had heard of this lake and the massive flood. One estimate

is that the lake had about half the volume of water that is in present

day Lake Michigan. When that water broke through and started the

flood it must have been a marvel to behold.

[clnfhs74]

Beautiful, I am appreciative and it is special to know you have a link to the small town in WI I where I grew up. Blessings.

[RayCis1]

I have made a wallpaper from your painting and sometimes I put it on the screen. I look at the impersonal snow coated mountains, devoid of all life for so many centuries, and it makes me realize that -long before man walked the earth, nature had its say...when and where to act...