I'm in a state that touches the Pacific!
Out doing a rare-plant survey to help evaluate the environmental impact of new wind turbines, they stopped to say hi and offer me some refreshments, including "cold water" and "hot grapes".
When I told Jed what I was doing and why I'd stopped at his house, he went straight to the backyard and fired up the grill, and I spent the rest of a really nice night (no mosquitoes!) with this very friendly family.
From left to right: Jared, Trish, Jed, Maggie, Sara, Kinsey, Rob
Word of my trip had spread to the folks at the local grain elevator, and they invited me in for a visit as I passed through Endicott. It's harvest time out here, so farmers were hauling in truckload after truckload of wheat. Special thanks to Val (and her boss, Alex) for lunch and groceries!
From left to right: Janette, Becki, Shauna, Val, Caleb, Missy
I've seen many tractor mailboxes, but this is the first homemade one.
Sally welcomed me in like family from the moment I arrived at her door. When Keith and Jordan got home from hauling wheat, we all had dinner together, which was really nice (I usually arrive after people have already eaten). And, in a bittersweet turn of events, I ended my no-shower streak at 17 days (a misleading statistic: I had a few baths in mountain streams and lakes during those 17 days).
From left to right: Sally, Keith, Jaron, Jordan
I also like the not-to-scale ruler.
Bonnie has a beautiful smile and flashes it often, but I somehow managed to catch her not smiling here and didn't notice until it was too late. Sorry, Bonnie! Anyway, I had a delightful evening with these two, highlighted by a perfectly sweet watermelon and a freshly made berry-peach pie.
This is why you see circular (or semicircular, or semisemicircular) fields in aerial photos of this region.
The blog updates this morning were courtesy of this hill's elevation above its surrounding land. While I was sitting beside the road here, a guy pulled over to talk. He said he stops at this spot if he's driving through and needs to make a phone call. He also said that Mount Rainier would be visible from here (looking in the other direction) if it weren't so hazy.
Kindergarten through sixth grade. The gentleman mentioned in the previous post said somewhere around eight students were enrolled here last year.
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And here is the action part
August 10th, 2010
The video on this camera gets screwy when I move too fast.
Day 137
Safety device?
August 10th, 2010
I guess the purpose of this is to give blind people an audible warning that they're entering the street. There's another pillar facing this one on the other side of the pedestrian ramp.
Apparently a local tradition. I've seen about six of these around the Tri-Cities. What's holding the box in place?
