A Day Between Sunsets

We were treated to a pretty sunset on our last evening at home.

Yesterday morning, I stitched enough on the Sweet Land of Liberty piece that I decided to move my hoop to encompass the last of it.

When I packed it for final take-off yesterday morning, it looked like this:

As I'm writing this, I've had some more time to stitch on it, and it's nearly finished. I'll have a finished picture for you very soon, I believe.

Just before taking off, I snapped a picture of our maple tree in the far corner of our field. You can see that it's just starting to turn colors at the tippy top. It'll be fun to see how it looks when we get home one month from now.

We had a long drive ahead, and so it was time to get going. Here we are, lock, stock, and barrel.

We drove through the beautiful Columbia Gorge on our way to La Grande, Oregon, our usual first stop when we head east. It's the first time we've been this far east since the devastating fires in 2017.

There were many burned areas, but surprisingly, the gorge is still quite green. It was mainly on the ridge top where we could see utter incineration. Nevertheless, there is plenty of green coming back even in the burned areas.

Of course, we saw some barns along the way.

And lots of grain silos. We're at the southern edge of the Palouse here.

The wheat has been harvested, and the hay has been cut and baled.

Here's something new on the west side of Pendleton, Oregon...a solar farm. There's also plenty of wind energy being produced in this area.

When we arrived in La Grande, the kitties were doing just fine with their newly unconfined ride in the truck camper. They wasted no time getting out to see what's what when Mike had the catio hung.

It was quite warm when we arrived, and we ended up sitting on the far side of the camper where Mr. Smitty could join in the conversation.

There were some pretty cloud formations overhead.

We're staying at the same park where we stay whenever we reach La Grande. It's an interesting area with hot springs and an old resort that has gone through several iterations, including being a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in its history.

It's in the process of being revitalized and I believe they're now accepting guests. You can read about the history of the area from this old blog post.

When the sun was lower in the sky and the temperature a little cooler, we took a walk out toward the lake. Along the way, we saw these guys.

Looking back, the RV park is as busy as I've ever seen it. We usually have the place to ourselves. No doubt, the Labor Day weekend has them busier than usual. You can see our rig almost smack in the middle of the image below.

Gazing out across the lake, we could see a snowy egret.

Here, Mike's shadow self was itching to play with Mike's new toy...a drone.

When we visited the Circles in the Sand this past summer, we saw a guy with a drone that Mike nearly swooned over. I encouraged him to get one for this trip. I think we're going to have fun with it. It folds up all compact and everything fits in this nifty little backpack.

When it's opened up and ready to fly, it looks like this:

And here we go. Fly, little drone, fly!

It can fly off clear out of sight, and he can continue to control it from its control module.

From here, he can see what the drone sees. He turned it back toward us. There in the middle of the screen, circled in red, you can see us standing there.

So, that was fun.

The sun had gone down enough that we could move to the awning side of the camper, and we could turn off the A/C and open the door. The kitties like to sit at the screen door where they can keep an eye on all woofies.

We had dinner, and watched the sun set.

Day is done.

This morning we'll set out again...330 miles to Heyburn, Idaho, today. We're paying close attention to the progress of the hurricane. Please take no chances, my blogging friends. Take care and stay safe.