Monday, August 27, 2007

Photoessay #101 - Multnomah Falls and memories of place


Surely, everyone would enjoy another waterfall picture. Multnomah Falls, the pride of the Columbia Gorge. Second largest falls in the US (I don't know the biggest) over 600 feet. Stunning in the picture and in person. we all hiked up to the bridge over the lower falls and then Ilana, Naomi and Dennis hiked up to the very top. All the stonework and the highway and the overlooks were developed around 1915.

A comment on yesterday's picture. This house looks familiar to me as do the pictures taken in the backyard posted on the other blog. It's all as I remember it, the yard, the roses, the garden, the patio, the children in the yard. Yes, it all looks correct. That is, correct 45 years ago in my memory. And some places still are as you remember them last year, ten years ago, twenty years ago.

We went by the Arden Park house 12 years ago, last time we were in Sacramento and we were surprised how upscale the houses and yards looked. Second stories added, trees and landscaping grown and developed. I just looked at the aerial shot of the area on Google Maps. The outline of the home appears to be the same. However you can hardly see the ground in the front or back for all the greenery. There appears to be a big rectangular swimming pool about where the patio and brick flowerboxes were with a big palm tree behind it. The rest of the yard seems to be obscured by trees, not the raw dry rough open lawn area in my memory.

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