"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you." Christina Rossetti
A Chinook wind is a strong wind from the southwest that often brings blue skies, warm temperatures, flooding, and lots of downed trees. That was true today - the temperature reached fifty degree, the wind speed also reached fifty (at least, according to my gauge), and there are trees down in town. The photographs are taken in front of and behind my house - the windblown grass, and the windblown Columbia River. I truly dislike trying to sleep when there are Chinook winds at night - no matter how tight the house, it gets noisy. But during the day, I love watching the movement of the vegetation, the whitecaps on the river, the birds huddled together in the lee of Foundation Island. (Five juvenile eagles in one tree this morning.) And I love the blue skies that such winds bring. It's not going to last long - the temperatures have already begun to drop again - but I find joy in these wild, windblown days.
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