There's a fish right over there...

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It's always good to be close to a good place to drink...

Leaves are falling...

Noir

I was born when she kissed me,
I died when she left me,
I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

-In a Lonely Place

A bouquet right next the railroad tracks...

They like to dance when they think no one is looking...

A quiet volcano with wildflowers...

Imagine another thousand feet of altitude, coming to a peak...

Coal Creek near the end of the day...

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The bend at the end of Coldwater Lake...

Hello Autumn!

Goodbye Summer, see you next year!

Mysterious...

Duck!

Turn turn turn...

There is still a flower or two, but mostly the water lilies are beginning their slow return to the darkness beneath the surface of the water until the Spring wakes them again.

Back to the forest-- after the rain showers...

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One last memory from the dry side of the mountains--- this old house is one of my favorite subjects...

The Gorge, looking east: Crown Point and out to the dry side...

Horsetail Falls in the Columbia River Gorge

The Gorge cuts through the Cascade Mountain Range--- and it's spectacular!

Windsurfing in the Columbia River Gorge, near Hood River...

Busy in the Gorge-- two trains and a barge...

Across the river you can see a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Feight going west.  On this side (at the bottom of the picture) a Union Pacific container train is going east.  And in the middle of the Columbia River, a barge is being pushed west.

Heading west through the Columbia River Gorge, back towards the wet side of the mountains...

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The Dalles Mountain Ranch in the hills high above the Columbia River-- looking towards Mt. Hood...

With a tiny tip of the hat to Thomas Hart Benton...

Welcome to the Goodnoe Hills Hotel...

...and post office, once upon a time.

Closed for repairs...

Even in the hot, dry high plains, this little flower reminds us that there's always something beautiful!

A home by the river...

A very, very long train...

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The water wagon...