Our precious! Where is the fog? Our precious rain! We wants it back!
We no longer care for the sun! It came out today and it was harsh on our eyes. Too bright! It made our skin too warm. Wearing multiple layers of clothes was uncomfortable. We hates it!
Today was a very nice day. Well rested, we spent part of the morning doing some chores like laundry and getting the car washed, ready to return. And by the time our brunch was over the sun was coming out!
The old historic drive along the Columbia River Gorge is a charming road. There are waterfalls everywhere you turn, everything is lush, and the guard rail on many parts of the road is actually a very attractive old moss covered stone (picture 138). On other stretches it is an attractive white fence (picture 136). Neither detracted from the drive.
In the way of stories today, we were able to help some hikers get to their car. Part of their trail had been closed off and they couldn’t get across a bridge (there was nowhere for a person to walk at all). Their only two choices were to hike several hours back the way they came and risk it getting dark on the way, or to have someone drive one of them across said bridge (picture 131). . . As Carl would say, “Easy done.”
I had some trouble with some of the waterfall pictures. Choosing the wide angle lens, I got very close to the falls. But the spray was soaking me (not a problem), my camera (not so less of a problem), and the camera lens (a problem).
It’s funny how when I got my first SLR changing lenses was something that I really only wanted to do in a sterile environment – like where they make computer chips. And when I cleaned my lenses, it was as I imagine someone might polish a diamond. But several years later, I’m standing at the bottom of a waterfall, covered in spray, and using my sweater to wipe water off the lens, take a picture, wipe more water of the lens, take a picture. . .
Next time round I’ll use a “longer” lens I think, so that I can further away from the spray. But then again, there was a log at the bottom of Multnomah Falls (picture 135) that I couldn’t get any other way. Though still, I didn’t really get it because I think that picture had water drops all over it. I'll be able to tell once I get home and get view the pictures in detail.
Speaking of, I think all my pictures look too dark on the netbook. I'm going to be interested (or mortified) to see how they look on a real monitor when I get home. But I guess that's part of the "Raw" aspect of all this.
Tomorrow we hit St. Helens on the way to Seattle. And I think we’re going to try to do some whale watching on Sunday.
Eleven new pictures.
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