my home town... Wenatchee, WA

johnojohno Registered Users Posts: 617 Major grins
edited June 5, 2005 in Landscapes
I took a "little" hike up the hill yesterday and shot this pic of the west side of Wenatchee, WA. It's not a great picture... It's not suppose to be.

The river you see is the Mighty Columbia. Of course, it's not that mighty this far north... You should see it when it hits the ocean near Astroia, OR. :D

If you look close you can see my work place. :rofl
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  • gpgoldgpgold Registered Users Posts: 469 Major grins
    edited May 27, 2005
    johno wrote:
    I took a "little" hike up the hill yesterday and shot this pic of the west side of Wenatchee, WA. It's not a great picture... It's not suppose to be.

    The river you see is the Mighty Columbia. Of course, it's not that mighty this far north... You should see it when it hits the ocean near Astroia, OR. :D

    If you look close you can see my work place. rolleyes1.gif


    Peace.
    johno~
    Nice view of the area. Pretty amazing to see the folks you work with waving from the windows.

    regards,

    Gary
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 27, 2005
    I can see you're parked in a tow away zone, quick, run back!

    Cool shot, thanks for showing your town.
    Sid.
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  • Rufio220Rufio220 Registered Users Posts: 190 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2005
    nice view. Did you get it in any other angles? or does the mt. end?
    ~Take it while it's there, cause tomorrow it will be gone~
  • Rufio220Rufio220 Registered Users Posts: 190 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2005
    also you should see if you can get the sunset or rise, if it goes over those mtns.
    ~Take it while it's there, cause tomorrow it will be gone~
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited June 5, 2005
    johno wrote:
    I took a "little" hike up the hill yesterday and shot this pic of the west side of Wenatchee, WA. It's not a great picture... It's not suppose to be.

    The river you see is the Mighty Columbia. Of course, it's not that mighty this far north... You should see it when it hits the ocean near Astroia, OR. :D

    If you look close you can see my work place. rolleyes1.gif


    Peace.
    johno~
    Oh, good lord. I have been there. I never go anywhere but my husband is from
    Wenatchee. A man I knew for years, he died a yr or so ago, he had spent a lot of time in that place.

    I had never heard of it!

    And now it is on the PC. I tell you the world is shrinking fast!

    I was there in 1993, I think. Right after Bill and I got married, we went to visit his father......................who died the next week. And I didn't know that was going to happen, was irritable, I was not as nice as I might have been........if I had known he was going to die right after we left. Maybe it was the next day, or something.

    It was February. You should take photos then. It was gorgeous! Snow, and more snow. We drove up in the mtns.

    Bill also lived in small towns around there, as a boy, after high school he joined the navy and left. We visited one of the small towns he lived in and I saw the house. His father drove, probably the last time he did.

    You are in WENATCHEE!? I think the whole world has lived there at some point. So, how are the apples now?

    ginger Oh, that was as good a photo as you could do with the scene you had. I would love to see apple trees. I had them drive me all over to take photos of the dormant apple trees. I thought they were fascinating.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • PrezwoodzPrezwoodz Registered Users Posts: 1,147 Major grins
    edited June 5, 2005
    ginger your message is sad and confusing eek7.gif

    johno i like the picture. Now do you have one of the mountains thats more my style of picture i enjoy staring at ! ;)
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited June 5, 2005
    Johno
    Very beautiful photo
    Great color clap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gif

    Thanks
    Fred
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited June 5, 2005
    I don't see why my post is sad and confusing, but I will make this clearer.

    This is not a large town. Larger than the very small ones, but the plane we flew in from Seattle, it was a scared flyer's nightmare. Though it was very scenic, for mtn climbing we could have just dropped you out of the plane.

    Since the place is so small, I am always surprised that someone else lives there, or did. My memory of the place is very vivid, it was packed with new and different things for me: snow for one. They kept apologizing. Big beautiful, glorious snow, all over the place, drifted high.

    I grew up with snow, but have not had it for awhile and never lived with that much. I don't think they got that much this year. I read something.

    The apple trees were gorgeous, old and gnarled. And they were all over, kind of a backyard staple was an apple orchard.

    And excited, I was excited. I even told Bill about it. (The fact that one of the photographers here is living in Wenatchee)

    ginger (don't know how much it has changed, hope everyone gets to experience one of those planes. We had to wait hours for ours to leave because there was fog. If there is fog, they don't/didn't fly. When they did, it was gorgeous and frightening, a dangerous experience in my mind.)
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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