Sunday Drive

[kiev4a]

Took a Sunday drive of about 50 miles in the Snake River Canyon today and got a few shots.

Abandoned house. Probably hasn't been used since the 1930s.




Wilson Peak, northern edge of Owyhee Mountains. Snake River in foreground. The dot in the upper right hand corner isn't dust on the sensor--it's a hawk!



Pickets of alkali soil "badlands" dot the canyon walls.



Map Rock is a spot on the bank of the river where natives chiseled drawings into the stone--possibly 5,000 years ago. The rock "appears" to show the course of the Snake River--from the headwaters to where it joins the Columbia some 500 miles downstream.. Map Rock is actually higher than a man but there isn't anything or anyone in my photo to put it in perspective, as I was by myself.

[PeterW]

Nice outing and nice pictures Wayne.

Abandoned houses like that always carry, for me, a touch of sadness. I wonder about the people who built them and lived there, their hopes and aspirations, and I wonder if they prospered and moved or just gave up and moved in the Depression. Sadly, in many cases I suspect, the latter.

PeterW

[doubs43]

Those are very nice images, Wayne. It's amazing to me just how small some of the older homes were and, like Peter, I think about what those homes have witnessed.

The standout shot for me is the one of Mount Wilson with the Snake River in the foreground. I could easily live in a place like that.

Walker

[kiev4a]

Walker:

About five miles dowstream from your favorite shot, it looked like this until about five years ago. Then someone came in, built an airstrip next to the river surrounded by homes. Probably at least 500 people live there now. Some have light planes they use to run errands and when they come home taxi right up to their front doors.