Fall Colors- Wenatchee River Canyon
Oct 16, 2013 3:35:40 GMT
Post by fumobici on Oct 16, 2013 3:35:40 GMT
OK, the story begins two weeks ago when I get back to my old car after taking my dog Haven for a walk at a local lake that has nice paths through the surrounding forest and find someone whom I presume was having a bad day and smashed the back window in. Didn't go inside the car or steal anything, just smashed the window.
So I call around to find a replacement window and find out the nearest new one is in California.
We're talking about $650 with the crating, shipping and installing--this for an $800 car. Yikes.
Anyway, I call every junkyard in my state and finally find a hillbilly junkyard in Kittitas, WA, 250 or so miles away that has one from a wreck for $85. Good.
Then I find a local guy who will install the window for another $95, not wonderful but a heck of a lot better than $650.
So I'm driving across the mountains over Stevens Pass, which I haven't done in a few years to pick up the window.
And as I am descending the East side of the Cascade range I am driving through the fog and it starts to part and lift.
The Wenatchee River is right alongside the road and I notice the light as the fog lifts and the sun clears the tops of the nearby mountains is very pleasantly accentuating the very showy fall colors. Wow.
So I stop several times, get out of the car and start snapping photos.
If you look closely you can see where a huge fire two years ago burnt a lot of the trees alongside the river.
Good things can obviously come from bad things.
The growth under the pines has exploded and erupted into the fall color you see here.
Just as the broken window got me out into the canyon on the perfect day to witness them.
So thank you random person who broke my window.
Had you not done so I would never have seen this amazing show.
And neither would you.
In the end well worth the $200 odd dollars including the gas money.
At least that's my take on it!
If that makes me a Pollyanna, so be it.
I love the reflections in the water.
Truly priceless.
So I call around to find a replacement window and find out the nearest new one is in California.
We're talking about $650 with the crating, shipping and installing--this for an $800 car. Yikes.
Anyway, I call every junkyard in my state and finally find a hillbilly junkyard in Kittitas, WA, 250 or so miles away that has one from a wreck for $85. Good.
Then I find a local guy who will install the window for another $95, not wonderful but a heck of a lot better than $650.
So I'm driving across the mountains over Stevens Pass, which I haven't done in a few years to pick up the window.
And as I am descending the East side of the Cascade range I am driving through the fog and it starts to part and lift.
The Wenatchee River is right alongside the road and I notice the light as the fog lifts and the sun clears the tops of the nearby mountains is very pleasantly accentuating the very showy fall colors. Wow.
So I stop several times, get out of the car and start snapping photos.
If you look closely you can see where a huge fire two years ago burnt a lot of the trees alongside the river.
Good things can obviously come from bad things.
The growth under the pines has exploded and erupted into the fall color you see here.
Just as the broken window got me out into the canyon on the perfect day to witness them.
So thank you random person who broke my window.
Had you not done so I would never have seen this amazing show.
And neither would you.
In the end well worth the $200 odd dollars including the gas money.
At least that's my take on it!
If that makes me a Pollyanna, so be it.
I love the reflections in the water.
Truly priceless.
