Photo #169 and 169.5

Once again we head 300 miles east to Baker City Oregon.
We are here to visit friends and watch
the Elkhorn Stage Bicycle Races.
We stopped in La Grande for lunch at Mt Emily Ale House.
Russell had a Buffalo Burger and I had Thai Chicken Salad.
We both had the Hells Canyon IPA.
and here's Josie- the nicest and friendliest person
behind the taps this side of the Cascades!

Photo #70

Visual Blight in the Columbia River Gorge

Only time will tell if these windmills provide

enough energy to justify this visual blight.

I used to actually kind of like how these gigantic

windmills looked. Now I think they have cluttered

the landscape and ruined the vistas we once had.

So far a medium sized coal fired electric plant produces more

electricity than all the windmills and solar panels

in the whole USA and that doesn't make much sense.

Sustainable? Not so much.

For more photos etc go to my posting from last year:

http://katheworsley.blogspot.com/2010/06/energy-and-its-visual-cost.html

Photo #69

Headed Back Home Down

the Columbia River Gorge