Leaving the Landing

It has been a nice pause here at Skamania Landing. The misty Northwest weather has moved out leaving sunshine and warming weather. The flotsam in the big eddy here at the house has increased because the river is so high. So as the sun is shinning up the river from the west you look out on the river and see large pieces of wood drifting down the river and then back up the eddy with flocks of birds floating along on top make large twenty minute turns around the eddy.
       I cleaned the Mothership and aired the tires today, did my laundry, so as my mother taught me, if I have an accident I will hopefully have clean underwear! But jokes aside this has been a marvelous. I loved the river traffic. The tugs pushing what ever up and down the river. Getting up high for the long views.
It was fun helping the friends of the library set up the book sale on Friday and go back today and take it down and find out how they did. Then afterwards go to the Walking  Man Brewery and have a beer with the Saturday afternoon crowd. There were wind surfers and a small sail boat regatta out on the broad river above the Bonneville Dam there in Stevenson.
One of the ideas about this trip was to spend time rather than passing through, at some places along the way. And though I have been here before, I learned even more about this area of the Columbia River Gorge.
     Also spring is here, with Azaleas, lilacs and fruit trees all in bloom. Something that is not happening today at home in Colorado. I got messaged this evening on my phone with pictures of quite a few inches of snow that fell today. I am glad I got a taste of spring here, I like it better than snow in April or even May!
     But tomorrow I will drive Washington Hwy 14 till it ends at I-82 and cross the Columbia River there. At Pendleton on I-84 you climb up the long hill where you can stop and read about how the got wagons on the Oregon Trail down this "hill that went on forever". It looks to be a nice day.

Will by the River