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.

Where to find me

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

day 7?

I guess this counts as day 7. I thought I'd share with you all some pictures of my apartment. It's very nice and very clean. Today we unpacked, tomorrow we head out to explore the town. We are going to find where I'll be working and find downtown and generally orient ourselves. In the pictures, the first room with the patchwork quilt is mine. The room with the Clemson blanket is where mom is sleeping right now.
Enjoy!