A nice winter scene -Multnomah Falls, Oregon

[packman]

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[paleotn]

1. Winter is coming

Wonderful!

[SCantiGOP]

2. It's 70 degrees where I am today

But looking at this makes me cold.

[Control-Z]

8. It's been near 100 for the past week here.

I'm in Huntington Beach
- approximately one mile to the beach. It's scary hot.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Strikingly beautiful!

I was in Portland 1 year ago - didn't know this was so close - but then again, I was busy checking out the marvelous breweries!!
THANKS!!!

[Mme. Defarge]

4. I have a paining of it above my fireplace mantel.

It’s actually a diptych of both Multnomah Falls and Waukeena Falls by Artist Leland John. The season is summer.

I once drove from Hood River to Portland on 84 while it was snowing. It was terrifyingly beautiful.

Here’s a poem I wrote way back when:


The Columbia Gorge

It takes courage to confront beauty
at its own level. Panoramas
are domains of past or future,
not the present; beauty for spectators,
distant and safe.

The scenic highway cuts high into the cliffs
as the river did an eon ago,
and beauty lies beyond and below.
Parallel to the Columbia, at sea-level runs I-84.
Twin channels, un-identical
one fluid, the other firm.

Traveling east from Portland
trees separate the twins until,
at the first clearing,
the river slides into view like a crosscut saw.

At sixty-miles an hour I collide head on -
gut-level with the gorge,
and by beauty I am severed at the waist.

[RainCaster]

7. Nice. Thank you for that.

[MontanaMama]

5. I've been to these falls so many times.

Beautiful! The snow that was there yesterday is here in MT today. It’s snowing and blowing here right now.

[Martin Eden]

6. I would love to visit these falls on a regular basis

Are they close to my home near Chicago?

(J/K)

[Control-Z]

9. Magnificent!

Thank you for posting this!

[Fla Dem]

10. Absolutely breathtaking!