Sunday photo dump
Amazingly, it was clear and sunny all day today, so we decided this morning that we should go out to the Columbia Gorge to look at waterfalls, hike around, and take pictures of trains. As befitting a household containing children, we got on our way at the bright and early hour of 2 pm, which turned out to be fine because the bears decided that they were done with being outside after we'd driven about 12 miles, and had to be coaxed along for the two hours we actually spent out there.
For example, Crown Point was not considered to be very much of a baby attraction, nor were any of the waterfalls. The stream at the foot of Multnomah Falls, well, that was a completely different story, and we spent about 30 minutes with the bears playing around it before it got dark and we started heading home for dinner.
And as for trains, well, we were on the south side of the Columbia River, which is where the Union Pacific operates. As we were heading east out of the city, we saw train after train just sitting stopped on the tracks, and what trains that were moving kept waiting until we were a long ways away from the railroad before they went thundering by. Finally, just after we decided to head on home, we spotted a single solitary Union Pacific train slowing to a stop for a red signal out east of Horsetail Falls.
If you look closely at this last picture, you'll get some idea about the amount of light that was available. "None" would be a pretty good bet, and I'm going to fork out some money for a 50mm prime lens pretty soon so that I can have a fighting chance of actually getting a good picture in the sort of minimal light we had left by the time we actually saw the head end of a train.
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You forgot to add that at beautiful Latourelle Falls, the bears grunted some acknowledgement of the gorgeous waterfall and the bright green lichen on the crystallized stone wall, but what really caught their attention was the “tubes” (the corrugated metal pipes running under the path).
I suppose we should be grateful Russell has mostly quit complaining about trees being in the way of his view (“cut them all down!”).