Salmon
Day 9: Salmon in the Window. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #roadtrip #salmon #fishladder #columbiariver #hydropower #dam
Home
Day 9: Made it home last night to Western Washington after 9 hours on the road. Recharging batteries today and reviewing what’s on the phone from yesterday’s road trip. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #roadtrip #pets #rattlesnakes
The wind power
Day 8: Just now climbed out of the Columbia River Gorge and pulled into the rest stop to check out the wind power. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #columbiariver #roadtrip #instagood #street #streetphotography #iphone6
Columbia Basin Project
Day 8: On the road rolling through Quincy, WA. Agriculture is big here, part of the Columbia Basin Project. Water from the Columbia River at the Grand Coulée Dam is diverted into irrigation canals and spread across more than 600,000 acres of farmland. It’s the largest water reclamation project in the U.S. Cheap power from …
Fish ladder
Day 8: Fish ladder at Rocky Reach Hydroelectric Dam on the Columbia River. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #rockyreach #hydropower #columbiariver #roadtrip #instagood #fishladder #salmon
Impeller
Day 8: Impeller for electric turbine at Rocky Reach Hydroelectric Dam on the Columbia River. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #rockyreach #hydropower #columbiariver #roadtrip #instagood
Elevator worker
Day 8: Worker on the elevator at Rocky Reach Hydroelectric Dam on the Columbia River. Dude’s got it going on. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #rockyreach #hydropower #columbiariver #roadtrip #beard #instagood
It looks like rain
Day 8: Looks like rain. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #americana
A Horrible Beauty
Day 8: A Horrible Beauty – A massive cloud of smoke rises from the Chelan Complex wildfires in Central Washington State. A few trees on the ridge line give a sense of the scale of this fire. This is a smaller complex of fires than the Okanogan Complex to the north where I was this …
Bye John
Day 8: Wish I’d had more time to hang out with John but had to deliver a motorcycle to the repair shop 75 miles down the road. As it was, I made it there 5 minutes before closing. I’ll be back to John’s though, sooner than later. He gave me three Walla Walla onions, a …