Eastern Washington
 

Road trip this weekend. The Palouse is glorious country, beautiful and abundant.

Enjoy the ride!

This picture is of the Columbia river, looking west. The wind was up and there were *waves* breaking on the riverbank. The sun is streaming through a column of dust from a newly plowed field. Bzzzt. Strike that. Ten minutes after this picture was taken, we discovered the road closed, and helicopters carrying buckets of water westward. A fire across the road, and a 35 mile detour.

As I said, we were heading west, heading home. We were running into the weather, and as we neared the edge of the storm, we could see the sun shining again, out on the horizon.

Eventually, we gained that sunny horizon. Will you look at that green!

Very Nice - V

I like that first picture. Something about the lower half reminds me of an oil painting. The last one has some nice pastels in the background, contrasted with blown-out highlights in the middle and the dark foreground. That's some nice drive-by shooting.

Thanks, both of you. I took a couple of pictures from the riverbank. The mighty Columbia is majestic, awesome. I imagined the thoughts of the pioneers as they arrived at the water's edge after descending the eastern rise. "We're screwed." That is a *lot* of water. How did they cross? I'll have to look it up sometime.

Running out from underneath the weather was exhilarating, the landscape sprang into life! Pow! The grass is that green, if it is grass. It could be alfalfa, or something else. "drive-by shooting" captures it exactly. I like to stop when I can, but if I can't I try anyway. These two turned out ok.

Once we were in the clear, we looked back at the storm. This picture captures less than half the rainbow, a beautiful glowing double from horizon to horizon. Awesome!

Then, we pointed ourselves west again and drove off into the sunset.

Wow, the colors man.

Wheat and lots of it.

Different trip same state. I love these ponderosas. HLJ, this one's for you.

well.. one western one eastern.

What absolutely beautiful, postcard-perfect, pictures. Thanks for sharing!

Very nice photos BigV.

Most excellent, BigV. In the first picture in post #9, is that fog or smoke?

I've been in the Palouse when they burn the fields and that's a thing to see. Though I think that's only allowed on the Idaho side now.

P.S. Can you see yourself in the tuba picture?

Wonderful shots, V! Thank you for sharing them.

Canada too. Labor day weekend they burn all the fields, I've driven through it many times.