Every time I go to Oregon or Washington it's sunny and looks like paradise: cool, green, glistening wet. Love it so, and am beginning to think you residents are just kidding about the rain to scare everybody away.
A few years back I drove up to see a friend of mine in Wenatchee- he had moved there after a dozen years in Seattle. When me and Kid Glass crossed the Columbia into Washington State on state highway 22, it said "welcome to the evergreen state" and I don't think there was a speck of green to be seen, a couple of hundred miles from the Pacific and in the rain shadow of the cascades.
Yep, that's why my friends moved to Wenatchee, his wife's allergies were getting to be too much.
Awesome pic!
Then again, Seattle is in the rain shadow of the Olympic Peninsula. It gets less precip per year than New Jersey (aka The Garden State). You all just get nickel and dimed all year
Also, my last year in NJ, I lived in a converted barn a mile south of Princeton (near Shel's old stomping grounds). We were in the middle of about 20 acres of dense hardwood forest. Never got as hot as folks who had more direct sunshine, but that was the only place I've ever lived where I had mold growing on my leather dress shoes. Humid, humid, humid.
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All this while the GOP platform wants to sell off our natural heritage. Just another reason I can't see ever voting for those cretins.
Fracking and off roading are our national heritage!
Unfettered capitalism and Jesus!
Don't forget lake lice!
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Shown here in winter plumage:
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*oukes*
Every time I go to Oregon or Washington it's sunny and looks like paradise: cool, green, glistening wet. Love it so, and am beginning to think you residents are just kidding about the rain to scare everybody away.
A few years back I drove up to see a friend of mine in Wenatchee- he had moved there after a dozen years in Seattle. When me and Kid Glass crossed the Columbia into Washington State on state highway 22, it said "welcome to the evergreen state" and I don't think there was a speck of green to be seen, a couple of hundred miles from the Pacific and in the rain shadow of the cascades.
Yep, that's why my friends moved to Wenatchee, his wife's allergies were getting to be too much.
Awesome pic!
Then again, Seattle is in the rain shadow of the Olympic Peninsula. It gets less precip per year than New Jersey (aka The Garden State). You all just get nickel and dimed all year
Also, my last year in NJ, I lived in a converted barn a mile south of Princeton (near Shel's old stomping grounds). We were in the middle of about 20 acres of dense hardwood forest. Never got as hot as folks who had more direct sunshine, but that was the only place I've ever lived where I had mold growing on my leather dress shoes. Humid, humid, humid.