Photographs: Cape Horn, Columbia River near Wishram, Stonehenge, and Kent
By Bryan Dorr, 23 Jan. 2012 at 21:58 PT Filed under: Photographs
Today’s photographs features Cape Horn, Columbia River near Wishram, the Stonehenge replica, and a small rural town named Kent, Oregon.
Fog filling the Columbia River Gorge blankets the hillside and Hwy. 14 at Cape Horn. The fog also reduced the visibility to about 200 feet on some stretches of the highway. Despite the recent winter conditions, the highway was in good condition.
Near Wishram, the Columbia River fades into the fog at the mouth of the Deschutes River. Fog and low level clouds hovered over the Columbia River at least between Portland and Biggs Junction. Like the fog in the western Columbia River Gorge near Cape Horn, east of the cascades was just as bad near Maryhill.
Next stop is the Stonehenge Replica and War Memorial in Maryhill. The snow covering the ground and capping some of the stones added a nice touch to the scene. The Stonehenge is one of my favorite places to photograph and let my dogs out to exercise.
Wrapping up the photo series is the small rural town of Kent, Oregon. An abandoned gas station along U.S. 97 seems to catch most motorists’ eye. Across the highway from the gas station is a stone and concrete silo, but I have no explanation for its purpose. There is another similar silo out in the field on the east side of the highway three miles south of Kent.
