The night before we left for Oregon, it poured, all evening, all night. I thought I'd never see the sun again. But there it was the next morning, sharing the sky with the usual cloud bank. We headed back through Walla Walla and got on Route 84 through Northern Oregon and along the Southern bank of the Columbia River. But first a note about the young wheat fields around Walla Walla. I had never seen anything like it - rolling hills of a rich grass green - the young wheat shoots uniformly laid out, so it looked like huge manicured estate lawns.
As we crossed the state line into Oregon, the Columbia River Gorge walls rose up on either side of the river. At first it was a desert environment with sage dotting the landscape and rock walls on either side of the river. Then it gave way to a temperate rainforest climate with trees and plants growing like weeds.
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We camped in the rainforest and hiked among trees, rocks and branches covered in a mossy green. I kept looking for a gnome to pop out, or Frodo Baggins.
The night before we left for Oregon, it poured, all evening, all night. I thought I'd never see the sun again. But there it was the next morning, sharing the sky with the usual cloud bank. We headed back through Walla Walla and got on Route 84 through Northern Oregon and along the Southern bank of the Columbia River. But first a note about the young wheat fields around Walla Walla. I had never seen anything like it - rolling hills of a rich grass green - the young wheat shoots uniformly laid out, so it looked like huge manicured estate lawns. 
As we crossed the state line into Oregon, the Columbia River Gorge walls rose up on either side of the river. At first it was a desert environment with sage dotting the landscape and rock walls on either side of the river. Then it gave way to a temperate rainforest climate with trees and plants growing like weeds. 
We camped in the rainforest and hiked among trees, rocks and branches covered in a mossy green. I kept looking for a gnome to pop out, or Frodo Baggins.
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