A Trip to East Wenatchee

We drove to East Wenatchee today to visit Forry's Sister Grace and her husband Les. Les had hip surgery last week and we wanted to visit them before we left for the south country.

What a change in the scenery since we drove this way just a couple of weeks ago. The orchards that were heavy with ripe fruit are now void of apples and are turning color.

The poplar trees along the edges of the road are now a brilliant yellow --

Here's another orchard, still colorful against the sagebrush hill --

It was a gray and overcast day. As we approached the Wenatchee River Valley, all we could see was fog --

 

The yellow poplars near the river were golden against the bluffs --

We spent a nice couple of hours visiting with Les and Grace, then made a Costco stop and headed back home to Auntie Violet.

Heading Home Again...

Forry was listening to the news last night while the rest of us were at the theater. He was a little concerned about the reports of the snowstorm in the mountains and snow in all the passes. We have all-weather tires on Toad II, but we weren't anxious to test them out. Instead of leaving late this afternoon, we decided to go ahead and get going this morning.

We did take a bit of time to get some snapshots of our getting very tall grand-children. Claire is in front and Varick is standing beside me. Look at how much taller he is than his Grammy!

He's also a bit taller than his mother, but not quite taller than his father, Scott --

This is what greeted us as we got our first glimpse of the Cascades!

There was a bit of snow at the top of Stevens Pass, but the road was wet and bare --

It was actually a pretty nice trip, although there was a great deal of traffic coming the other way. They would come in packs of fifteen or twenty and then there would be long gaps before the next pack.

We had picked up breakfast at Starbucks and made a couple of stops for gas at the Costco in Mount Vernon and the one in East Wenatchee. Other than a needed stop at a rest stop, we pretty much drove straight through, getting back to the ranch just as it was getting dark.