Kennewick

I promised pics in my last post, so here they are. Sort of an expanded version of my Lunch Break Adventures :) Kennewick is what I consider to be my home town, and it's totally different from BC. And not just the cherry blossoms!



This is an unused railway grain tower right in the middle of town, fairly iconic. I've meant to take a picture of this for literally years, but of course it took me until now to actually do it.

We went down through Badger Canyon where I used to live. It made me so nostalgic! The whole area is agricultural-- vineyards, orchards, asparagus and hay fields. It's so beautiful. These are vineyards with poplar trees planted as windbreaks (have I mentioned that the Columbia Basin gets HUGE winds? The day these were taken we were actually in the midst of a dust storm!)








This is a great overview of what the area is like. No mountains, just rolling hills that are so sandblasted they look soft like pillows.



And there is an area called LaPierre Canyon at one end of Badger Canyon. My ex-stepmother lives up there, right near the corner of LaPierre Canyon Road and Rachel Road.





As a new LaPierre, I find it kind of neat :)

At any rate I hope you enjoyed this brief look at the Tri-Cities. Maybe someday I'll get around to taking more pics... I always plan to, but never seem to get around to it. To much shopping to do while I'm down there!

Easter vacation

So I went back home on my Easter long weekend. I worked a half day on Thursday and me, gramma and the kids headed down to Kennewick. I had a fantastic time, did lots of shopping, visited family and friends and got lots of pictures which I will post once I get them off the TWO cameras I brought :) But I just wanted to share something that had been bugging me...

Everyone loves spring, when the cherry trees bloom. BC has many of them, especially the area of White Rock where I work. But I guess I am used to a different kind of cherry tree-- and I didn't know there was more than one type. This is the type of cherry blossom you see in BC:




Beautiful, yes, but more "petal" than actual "blossom".



I kept looking for the cherry blossoms I am used to... these beautiful full, lush blossoms that come in several different shades of pink, from almost-white to bright pink. And I realized that they are all over the place in Kennewick. It made me a little bit sad... I miss them!






Isn't that a goofy thing to be sad about? But by the time I got back to BC, the wind and rain had pretty much taken all the petals off the trees. The blossoms are much hardier so stick around longer.

Oh well. Maybe one day I'll figure out which type of tree that is and plant one myself :)

More pics later!