Washington State Adventure

Yesterday my sister, brother-in-law and I went on a loop up into Washington to Trout Lake and Klickitat. It was a hot day 97-100 degrees. There was no lake at Trout Lake, but there was a huge canyon that the river cut through the mountains and beautiful valleys, Mount Adams has a large snow pack for July, and this is the south side. The run-off from the mountain on this hot day is milkey colored. The platforms over the river are where the Native Americans net salmon as they go upstream. No dams on the Klickitat River. We dined at Huntington's, totally authentic, and they serve huckleberry pie - yummmmm.

100 shades of grey

Back in Oregon,  back to clouds and rain. Such a change, I never take my sweatshirt off. I saw a bit of Mt Hood from the plane into Portland, but its been hidden ever since. Incredible luck today: I lost two rings off my right pinky yesterday, after looking everywhere found one in the car trunk. That was clue that they slipped off while loading groceries so went back to market and amazingly someone had turned it in!  Got both rings back when I thought for sure they were gone forever.
Then the clouds started to clear and the mountain reappeared - it is majestic at over 11,000 feet.