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Post by kiev4a on Jan 23, 2006 9:49:55 GMT -5
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Post by John Parry on Jan 23, 2006 11:30:06 GMT -5
Hi Wayne,
You mentioned it was a January day, and I was thinking "Where's all the grass?" But I noticed on your post of the Colombia River, you are talking about the arid landscape. Is it all like that in your area?
I like the half-track - looks a bit melancholy I think, as though it had fallen on hard times.
Regards - John
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Post by kiev4a on Jan 23, 2006 12:34:33 GMT -5
Much of this region is naturally arid (only about 10 inches of rainfall annually after you get east of the Cascade mountains along the Pacific Coast. It's generally referred to as "The Great Basin" and stretches all the way to the Rocky Mountains. We depend on manmade reservoirs in the mountains to supply irrigation water in the summer. Eastern Oregon, Washington and Southern Idaho (as well as much of Utah and all of Northern Nevada) have much the same climate. Everything turns brown during the winter, then greens up in the spring. We are sort of on the northern border of the Basin here in Idaho. I can drive an hour north and be in pine trees all the way to the Canadian border--500 miles.
If I had a place to store it I would try to acquire the halftrack and restore it to its wartime dress.
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Post by kamera on Jan 25, 2006 15:53:07 GMT -5
Wayne,
Nice! How do you like the F4s. For use with my Nikons, I have the old version 24-120 lens.
I really liked the 'arid' part of Washington when I lived there. Was located in the Tri-City area(Kennewick specifically) and right on the Columbia River. In July and August, it would often get up to 105-110F but low low humidity so it was not too bad. In the winter we could get a small amount of snow or ice and within a 1/2-1 hour time lapse, a chinook would come through and melt it all. The dust storms in the summer could be something else and there would be times the windows of the house would not keep the dust out.
But all in all...a great place to live. I was really disappointed that after 4 years there, I got transferred back to SW New York State...which, actually was also great...but entirely different during the seasons.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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