The state of Washington has no appreciation for its own natural beauty. The state park website here is atrocious. It doesn't even have pictures of the part of the park that you would want to see. For example, I give you Palouse Falls SP. It is a waterfall. No pictures of waterfalls on their website. Luckily for you all, I have taken plenty of pictures of it today. It was incredible. We drive through this rolling countryside. Lots of farmland. All of a sudden, there's this canyon and a waterfall. The falls are 185 feet high, making the canyon at least 400 feet deep. Some of the pictures have people in them to give you an idea of the scale. This park was so unlike South Carolina. There, someone would have fallen to their death by now, so there'd be handrails everywhere and you wouldn't be able to actually wander around. Here, there weren't even official trails. There was a fence at one spot, but it was pretty much open for wherever we wanted to wander, right up to the edge. Which is kinda scary if you're afeared of heights (well, just unsafe heights. if there's a railing, i'll walk right up to it). But it was very cool and totally worth walking up to the edge. We also went to Walla Walla, so there are pictures of that too.
For those who want a laugh, I've included this slide show of the local disc golf course. It's like wandering across Wyoming or something. Very strange.
Palouse Falls
Saturday, May 31, 2008
A few pictures of town. You'll see several different things here. There is a picture of my apartment building, another one later of my back porch. There are some pictures of town (roads and trees). There are only actually trees along the roads, so you get the false impression of a highly treed area.
The tree types vary greatly here. There are hardly any native trees in the neighborhoods. See, when the government first built the town around the nuclear site, they planted whatever they had. Anything that you give some water to and put in the ground here will grow. As long as it gets water. So we drove past asian trees, sweetgum trees, maples, birches, willows, fraser firs...I think I saw a mesquite too.
The building you'll see later, rather gray and ugly one, is my lab. The picture of the road with the bubble building in the distance...that's the nuclear site. I'm going on a tour later this summer. No, there won't be pictures. I have a headache, so this is going to be really short. Enjoy the pictures!
Oh, there are also a few vineyard pictures.
The tree types vary greatly here. There are hardly any native trees in the neighborhoods. See, when the government first built the town around the nuclear site, they planted whatever they had. Anything that you give some water to and put in the ground here will grow. As long as it gets water. So we drove past asian trees, sweetgum trees, maples, birches, willows, fraser firs...I think I saw a mesquite too.
The building you'll see later, rather gray and ugly one, is my lab. The picture of the road with the bubble building in the distance...that's the nuclear site. I'm going on a tour later this summer. No, there won't be pictures. I have a headache, so this is going to be really short. Enjoy the pictures!
Oh, there are also a few vineyard pictures.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Hello family and avid fans!
I will eventually put up one more post with pictures of town for you to see. I start work tomorrow morning, bright and early (well, it'll be nearly 11 your time). I just wanted to let you guys know that you should probably not expect daily posts this summer. If I do anything interesting, I'll keep you posted. I'm working on a puzzle right now. Not too exciting. I'm currently sorting the pieces by color. (So OC)
For those of you who may want to reach me, my address here is:
1900 Stevens Drive
Apartment 117
Richland, WA 99354
I will eventually put up one more post with pictures of town for you to see. I start work tomorrow morning, bright and early (well, it'll be nearly 11 your time). I just wanted to let you guys know that you should probably not expect daily posts this summer. If I do anything interesting, I'll keep you posted. I'm working on a puzzle right now. Not too exciting. I'm currently sorting the pieces by color. (So OC)
For those of you who may want to reach me, my address here is:
1900 Stevens Drive
Apartment 117
Richland, WA 99354
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