A Drive on Beehive

It's been just a bit more than 3 years since we moved to the sunny side of the Cascade Mountain Range. And, just this spring has been the first time I've been able to wake up to a gloomy overcast day, and be somewhat happy about it, for a couple hours anyway.

It's hard to explain to those who haven't experienced it themselves the difference between a gloomy overcast day on the west side, and what locals here would call a gloomy overcast day--I know a lot of my readers are familiar with both, but bear with me while I try to explain to those who aren't. Typically here in Wenatchee, or anywhere on the east side of the state, our springtime rainy days have small sunshine breaks, and the clouds are still pretty high, so it's fairly bright outside, although it is a bit darker than blue sky days--but, it's really more like a white sky bright day instead of a blue sky bright day. Your average west-side rainy day though, the clouds are low, and it is DARK, and you won't see anything but this constant drizzle all day long. I personally get really clausterphobic when this happens, so it's incredibly depressing to me for the months on end that it happens to be like this. However, when the sun DOES shine, the west side is breathtakingly beautiful.

So, just a few times a year usually (although this year it has been a bit more than that) we get a "west-side" rainy day, with dark low hanging clouds, and drizzle or downpour all day long. Saturday and Sunday were those days for us here.

We had originally planned on a weekend camping trip, but different circumstances prevented us from being able to do that... and, all-in-all it ended up being a good thing, because where we would have gone ended up having a lot of winching through very wet snow, and a lot of flooding. I still think it would have been fun, and I'm a little bummed that we didn't get to have that experience, but realistically, it worked out for the best.

So instead, Frank took us out to dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants, and then we headed up to Beehive Road, for a little rainy evening short going losting trip to make up for our lack of camping trip for the weekend. We went up as far as we could go without driving on snow. It was getting late, and we didn't want to get stuck and be winching in the dark. Then we got out and hiked a short little rainy hike up to some cool rock formations we could spot from the road.

God's rocks... ROCK! Heh heh.

How to feel small... (and so thankful that we are still significant!)

Yep, it's a LOOOONG way down there! (It might not look like it at first glance, but check out the tiny (but really huge) trees in the bottom right hand side of the picture.)

My girls and me...

Wildlife, can you spot the two deer?

We are SO looking forward to our first camping trip, whenever we might actually be able to manage it!!