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Hipcamp View
Our camping site (a private family’s Hipcamp location) along the side of the Payette River valley offered views like this.
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Stream
View from bridge over a stream in the Payette River valley just south of McCall, Idaho.
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Burning Bush
Fall colors lined the paths through Ponderosa State Park near McCall, Idaho.
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Payette Lake
Walking the trail along Payette Lake just north of McCall, Idaho, we enjoyed views like this of the mile-high lake.
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Finnish Church
The Finnish Church in the Payette Valley. My wife Elaine has Finnish roots from her maternal grandparents who came to America in the early 1900s.
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Lost in Translation
In case you don’t know Finnish, the sign says “Be good and do not throw any garbage in the cemetery. Let’s keep it clean. Thanks.”
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Born in Finland
Just north of McCall, Idaho is the old Finnish cemetery full of headstones like this one of immigrants who settled this wide valley.
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Cascade Lake
Purple light on the hills reflect on Cascade Lake in central Idaho on the second night of our National Park trip.
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Kamiah Prairie
The first day of our National Park trip, we only went as far as Grangeville, Idaho. Here’s the view of Kamiah Prairie at sunset from our campground.
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Wide Water
Driving up the Columbia River, the wide water mirrors the sky near the site of Celilo Falls, once the primary fishing and trading location on the entire river. Now just a quiet lake behind John Day Dam.
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Harvesting
Salmon not needed for spawning at Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery in the Columbia River Gorge are harvested by members of the local tribe to sustain them through the winter.
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Salmon
Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery saw hundreds of sockeye salmon returning to spawn in mid-September. The hatchery, near White Salmon on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge, is where my sister works giving tours to visiting classrooms.
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Cave
A third image of the Three Arch Rocks off the coast at Oceanside, Oregon, here framed by the cave at the tip of Maxwell Point.
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Shadow
A large rock on the beach at Oceanside, Oregon stretches up like one of the sea lions that frequent this coast, almost touching the moon in the morning sky.
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Wave
The first of three images of the Three Arch Rocks from the beach at Oceanside, Oregon in mid-September. Morning light bathes the offshore rocks while a wave breaks over the shadowed rocks on the beach.
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Field Patterns
Flying back to Spokane, the recently harvested wheatfields of the Palouse create patterns similar to integrated circuits when viewed from a mile overhead.
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Place Jacques Cartier
Dinner in a cafe along Rue St Paul in old Montreal featured this view of pedestrians shopping and talking (mostly in French) in Place Jacques Cartier. I guess you could say I share a name with Cartier, the first Frenchman to reach Quebec and Montreal.
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Silver Dome
Not all domes are on churches. The Marcee Bonsecours in old Montreal is a temple to commerce — both originally as the customs house and today as a market.
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Montreal Architecture
This downtown office building from a century ago includes lion heads atop the facade and plenty of geometric lines in the windows and walls.
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Fashion
The lime-green sports car and young lady in neon colors create quite a contrast with the cobblestone street and the building behind, one of the oldest in Montreal. A taste of Paris on this side of the Atlantic!
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Brick and Stone
When it was time to expand an old building in Montreal, instead of demolishing it, they just added new bricks to the old stone walls to make it larger. The original outlines are still visible, showing the layers of history you see in this old-new city.
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Brides
Our walk through old Montreal passed 4 or 5 wedding parties getting photos or saying their vows in various gardens and church settings. A city of romance!
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Pug & Poodle
In downtown Montreal, this statue of an Englishman turning up his nose at the French Basilica is mirrored by a nearby Frenchwoman looking offended by the English Bank of Montreal. But the pug in his arms and the poodle in hers are looking very affectionately at each other — a fun metaphor for the love/hate…
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Quebec at Night
The view from our cruise ship with the lights of old Quebec City below and the Hotel Frontenac glowing above on a warm evening.
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