Stonehenge, high above the Columbia River...

This is a full-size replica of Stonehenge, built starting in 1918, about 100 miles east of Portland.  It was America's first monument to the dead of WWI

The 1912 railroad bridge and the switchyard at Wishram.

The old red barn in the canyon...

Just a quiet little picture-- nothing much has changed for over a hundred years...

Still a good place to get out of the sun...

Heading west!

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The 8 Mile Cemetery-- In a peaceful light...

The River is life...

The pews are gone, the windows are gone, and the congregation is gone-- but it's still there...

The Locust Grove Church

Still proud, a 1949 Studebaker flatbed truck...

And 80 years earlier, most of the covered wagons were Studebakers too...

The wind, a hint of people laughing...

Was it really so long ago...?

A lot of wheat, headed west...

Nobody's home except the cow...

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The Dalles Dam at night-- Each spillway with different lights...

See yesterday's post for the dam at sunset...

The Dalles Dam at sunset...

More than 1250 feet above the Columbia River, from the Goodnoe Hills, looking west-southwest over the John Day Dam towards Mt. Hood...

Big, powerful, fast-- but never frightening...

The ranch in Tygh Valley

Non-stop along the cliffs...

The rugged basalt cliffs along the Columbia River--- on the dry side of the mountains...

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Goodnoe Hills Homestead

One is leaning to the left. The other is leaning to the right...

And the cows don't care one little bit!

The elevator at Boyd...

This wooden giant was used for storing wheat.  Trains stopped where the dirt road is now.  A water driven grist mill was on the other side.  A normal person would stand only as tall as the top of the lower window on the left side.  And once again the old schoolhouse is peeking from the top right. 

Boyd, Oregon-- the little school high on a bluff above the grist mill and giant wooden elevator...

Now a ghost town, this was a bustling place 120 years ago.  Boyd was dis-incorporated in 1955.  The wooden grain elevator is quite large and is visible above the trees.  Steam trains and stage coaches stopped here. Now there is only the schoolhouse and the elevator.

Another shot of the old schoolhouse at Boyd, Oregon--- on a bluff above the grain elevator.

Another old schoolhouse-- this one near Goldendale..

The Goodnoe Hills schoolhouse...

The poor old building looks pretty bad these days, so it asked me to take only its good side.  It would look more like the others if someone hadn't put those terrible green shingles on the outside 60 or 70 years ago...

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The 8 Mile Schoolhouse

Long abandoned--- but I wonder why the windows on the side were closed up at some point.

A two room schoolhouse on the high plains--

The old classic, Boyd schoolhouse...

So many of our old favorites are being threatened by wildfires on the dry side of the mountains...

Plywood tables and benches, and an old piano-- perfect for potlucks and sing-alongs at the old Friend School...

The people on farms and ranches from miles around can be a part of each other's lives at the old schoolhouse.