---Columbia River at Government Island -- hundreds of boats; tents and chairs on the beaches. The Mighty Columbia flowing north between Oregon and Washington, then curving west towards the Pacific.
-- South Puget Sound -- intensely blue, awash against beaches and bluffs with houses and streets and Pacific Northwest green, green trees.
-- the Cascade Mountains -- the foothills, shaved clean for lumber, marching esat towards the snowy heights; cone-shaped volcanic forms with a patchwork quilt of snow, trees, clear-cuts and valleys;
-- the flat intermountain west -- with long basins of water breaking the monotony;
-- the Rocky Mountains -- knife-sharp, angular ridges shoved up from the ground and slanting to the west, casting long black shadows running from the sun;
-- brown air hanging over the world like a sickly and shabby worn wool blanket;
-- the starkness of the blue sky above the brown air;
-- the Canadian shield of Manitoba, pock-marked with uncountable potholes of glacial lakes stretching away under the wing;
-- the small, pale, not-exactly-round disk of moon struggling to ascend through the brown murk holding it under, as if trying to breathe while being held under turbid water; finally breaking free to soar large, bright and white over hugh mountains of white clouds;
-- the darkness settling over the world as we run from the sun, flying a great northern route across the Atlantic to Europe.
- posted from the fisheyepad
Location:the atmosphere of Planet Earth
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