Eastern Washington Part 1
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Combines
Highway 2, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Farm View
Often old, replaced equipment is just left at the edge of a field.
Highway 2, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Trees & Clouds
Highway 2, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Train Tracks
Highway 2, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Derelict Barn
Highway 2, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Mountains, Trees & Clouds
Grand Coulee, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Gehrke Windmill Garden
Grand Coulee, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Sign
Very interesting information on the dam.
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Visitor Center & Towers
Some of the distribution system for the electricity produced by the dam.
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Park
We had a nice picnic lunch at the table in the center of the photo.
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Jones Bay
Banks Lake, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Narrowleaf Hawkweed
Hieracium umbellatum
Jones Bay, Banks Lake, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Steamboat Rock
The photo guide book I used mentioned columnar basalt at this location, a feature that always interests me.
Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Columnar Basalt
Anxious to see this feature, I found in subsequent days that there is a LOT of columnar basalt in Washington.
Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Steamboat Rock
Rabbitbrush in the foreground.
Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Steamboat Rock
Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Rabbitbrush
Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Crested Wheatgrass Seedheads
Agropyron cristatum
Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Derelict Log Barn
Colville Indian Reservation, Highway 21, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Derelict Buldings
Colville Indian Reservation, Highway 21, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Longhorn
Bos taurus taurus
Republic, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Longhorn
Bos taurus taurus
Republic, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Sign
Pflug Mansion, Wauconda, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Pflug Mansion
Wauconda, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Big Brown Bat
Eptesicus fuscus - spotted on the wall of a Pizza Hut where we had Personal Pan Pizzas and beers.
Omak, Washington, September 6, 2023
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Sign
The Preserve is too close to town and the hilltop seems a favorite spot for drinking and shooting.
Beezley Hills Preserve, Washington, September 7, 2023
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View
The photo guide book says this is a beautiful place for Spring flowers. Fall provided nice views, but little else.
Beezley Hills Preserve, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Hedgehog Cactus
Echinocereus engelmannii - a cactus that lives very far North.
Beezley Hills Preserve, Washington, September 7, 2023
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View
The clouds made the photo worth taking.
Beezley Hills Preserve, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Canyon Wall
More columnar basalt layers.
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Columnar Basalt
Formed by lava coming up through cracks in the earth's crust over millions of years, millions of years ago.
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Columnar Basalt
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Mule Deer
Odocoileus hemionus - at the edge of corn field.
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Columnar Basalt
Lichens add nice color.
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Butte
The basalt has weathered and formed slopes of rubble.
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Snow Buckwheat
Eriogonum niveum
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Columnar Basalt
Moses Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Sign
Hard to imagine the described formation of this feature.
Dry Falls State Park, Lower Grand Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Dry Falls
The flow during the Missoula floods 13 to 15,000 years ago, flow was ten times greater than Niagara Falls.
Dry Falls State Park, Lower Grand Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Lower Grand Coulee
20 miles of canyon carved by the Missoula floods.
Dry Falls State Park, Lower Grand Coulee, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Black Poplars
Populus nigra - very nice park where we hoped to see some wildlife but it was the wrong time of the year.
Potholes, Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Pothole Lakes
Below Potholes Reservoir.
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria - introduced species.
Potholes, Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
Potholes, Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Yellow Bee Plant
Cleome lutea
Potholes, Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Yellow Bee Plant
Cleome lutea
Potholes, Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Soda Lake
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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Soda Lake
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, September 7, 2023
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