A week in photos
Sep. 27th, 2010 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchOnce again, I'm a day late... but we got home rather late last night and I was exhausted after spending the weekend Geocaching!
First up, is Numfar in her favorite spot.
Here she is, perched on the back of my office chair. She spends quite a bit of time there... most likely because I spend quite a bit of time there (sitting in the chair, that is... not perched on the back).
I wasn't going to post two cat photos, but this one was too fun to pass up.
I had the suitcase out to pack for our trip and spotted Numfar sitting on the lid side... and then Zoë noticed her and hopped in to sit next to her on the lid. I ran to grab my camera to get a shot of the two of them together, getting back just in time to spot Zoë nipping at Numfar until she moved... and then stretching out on the lid by herself, looking rather smug and very pleased with herself. *rolls eyes* Numfar recovered quickly and settled in on the main side of the suitcase. Still made a pretty good picture.
On Friday night, we hopped in the car and drove over the mountains to the middle of the state to get ready for a Geocaching Event. Someone had plotted out a route through Moses Lake, WA running past 88 caches in the most efficient way possible -- assuming you started at 6:30 in the morning (we didn't) and didn't spend too long at each cache, you could presumably get them all in a day. I'm not sure anyone actually managed it.
One of the cache owners put this sign up out by their cache... and, of course, we all signed it when we stopped by!
The route took us south out of Moses Lake through a huge variety of landscapes.
Here's an orchard down near Royal City and Othello.
This one appeared to be primarily apples (not sure what kind... definitely something red), with a few pear trees sporadically placed. Also not sure why the pears were being left to fall off the trees like that.
What a lot of people don't know is that there's actually only a small portion of Washington state that gets a lot of rain... and the middle part isn't it. The area is mostly desert and scrubland, although the ground is pretty fertile when it does get water.
When we first got to the other side of the state, but Rackham and I started sniffling and sneezing... here you can see why. Apparently, we're both allergic to sagebrush (which was in full bloom)! (Claritin was a big help last weekend.)
And one of the more prairie-like areas.
On the way home yesterday, we stopped off at a scenic overlook above the Columbia River Gorge and ran into some other Geocachers we'd met before. The six of us made quick work of the three closest caches... although we got quite a scare, Rackham in particular since he was in the lead, when we stumbled across a rattlesnake!! It was perfectly happy to leave us alone as long as we left it alone (Rackham said he noticed as he was beating a hasty retreat that it was rattling while slithering away). Anyway, I snapped several shots of the sunset over the Gorge... but this is probably my favorite.
First up, is Numfar in her favorite spot.
Here she is, perched on the back of my office chair. She spends quite a bit of time there... most likely because I spend quite a bit of time there (sitting in the chair, that is... not perched on the back).
I wasn't going to post two cat photos, but this one was too fun to pass up.
I had the suitcase out to pack for our trip and spotted Numfar sitting on the lid side... and then Zoë noticed her and hopped in to sit next to her on the lid. I ran to grab my camera to get a shot of the two of them together, getting back just in time to spot Zoë nipping at Numfar until she moved... and then stretching out on the lid by herself, looking rather smug and very pleased with herself. *rolls eyes* Numfar recovered quickly and settled in on the main side of the suitcase. Still made a pretty good picture.
On Friday night, we hopped in the car and drove over the mountains to the middle of the state to get ready for a Geocaching Event. Someone had plotted out a route through Moses Lake, WA running past 88 caches in the most efficient way possible -- assuming you started at 6:30 in the morning (we didn't) and didn't spend too long at each cache, you could presumably get them all in a day. I'm not sure anyone actually managed it.
One of the cache owners put this sign up out by their cache... and, of course, we all signed it when we stopped by!
The route took us south out of Moses Lake through a huge variety of landscapes.
Here's an orchard down near Royal City and Othello.
This one appeared to be primarily apples (not sure what kind... definitely something red), with a few pear trees sporadically placed. Also not sure why the pears were being left to fall off the trees like that.
What a lot of people don't know is that there's actually only a small portion of Washington state that gets a lot of rain... and the middle part isn't it. The area is mostly desert and scrubland, although the ground is pretty fertile when it does get water.
When we first got to the other side of the state, but Rackham and I started sniffling and sneezing... here you can see why. Apparently, we're both allergic to sagebrush (which was in full bloom)! (Claritin was a big help last weekend.)
And one of the more prairie-like areas.
On the way home yesterday, we stopped off at a scenic overlook above the Columbia River Gorge and ran into some other Geocachers we'd met before. The six of us made quick work of the three closest caches... although we got quite a scare, Rackham in particular since he was in the lead, when we stumbled across a rattlesnake!! It was perfectly happy to leave us alone as long as we left it alone (Rackham said he noticed as he was beating a hasty retreat that it was rattling while slithering away). Anyway, I snapped several shots of the sunset over the Gorge... but this is probably my favorite.
