August 25, 2011

Close enough to feel the mist

Close enough to feel the mist

The unbearably hot summer we had gave me a new appreciation for waterfalls. We’ve got quite a few lovely waterfalls here in the northeast, but we also spent a lot of time standing in the misty spray of waterfalls when we were vacationing in the northwest.

15 comments:

Digger said...

Uh. Wow!

Phil said...

Multnomah Falls? You drove through the Gorge?

Sabrina said...

hey, you're right down the road. kinda. hi. :)

jo(e) said...

Phil: I was trying to remember the name of the falls! Yes, we drove through the Gorge. What beautiful scenery.

jo(e) said...

Sabrina: Hi!

Silver Fox said...

Ooh! My favorite falls. :)

kathy a. said...

gorgeous! good choice, taking the photo from not on that bridge. it's not that i lack faith in engineering genius, but my body doesn't believe in taunting gravity that way.

Jennifer (ponderosa) said...

Hey, I recognized that bridge right away! Did you hike all the way to the top? --- I have a lot of affection for Multnomah Falls; in autumn 2000 hiking along the stream that creates those falls, my husband and I decided I'd stop taking the pill and we'd see what happened... I got a son out of that day's decision.

I hope you liked Oregon!

Mom2BJM(Amy) said...

Aw, I love Multnomah Falls! Wish I lived closer - the 2ish years we lived in Oregon was not long enough!

Kyla said...

Beautiful!

It is so hot here that a big part of me wants to drop all my classes, just to avoid the walk to campus! ;)

jo(e) said...

Jennifer: We only had time to walk up to the bridge -- we were just passing through -- but that was a cool view.

We loved Oregon, especially the coast.

undine said...

Multnomah Falls! Now I'm wondering which beaches you went to; your pictures were so beautiful.

jo(e) said...

Undine: We stayed a night in Port Angeles, and then a night in La Push, right on First Beach, and walked to Second Beach and Third Beach. Then we stopped at Cannon Beach (I think that was the name -- the cliff island there was called Haystack), and stayed a couple of nights on Rockaway Beach near the Twin Rocks.

Phil said...

Ah, get downwind from Haystack and you experience, courtesy of our avian friends, the Devil's morning breath.

Jen said...

This is beautiful! I have lived in the Midwest most of my life, but spent 3 months living in Oregon 20 years. I miss this!