Oh, dear! What can I do?

I was halfway home when I realized--my camera is sitting on my desk. I won't be back at school until Thursday. Should I turn around and go back for it? That doesn't seem practical at this time of the day. The traffic will have increased in town. (It was the in town half that I had already traveled.)

I will never wear something without pockets again. Well, that is not terribly practical, either. My new camera fits into my hip pocket and that is how I generally have it always with me. My larger camera is usually not too far away. I keep it at school, taking it with me if I have plans for the weekend.
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So how can I show you the quilt that is the valley at this time of year. The last couple of days, the cherry blossoms are out. Other orchards are in various states of new leaf, but not yet in bloom.

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Here is what it looks like right now.

Yeah, sure! but you get the idea.

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Later on down the highway I saw two semis with flatbed trailers carrying small cabinlike buildings. The structures were not just part of a mobile. They were a whole building--not more than the width of the trailer and slightly longer. I wish I had a picture. But here! This is what it looked like:

Sort of.

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Once I got close to home I remembered once again that something is going on across the road. You may remember this from a while back. It is the view across the road from our front yard. The city water tower and Mt. Adams in the distance beyond the vineyard.

That's how it did look. Now the vineyard as well as the orchard north of it are being removed. It looks something like this.

Well, no it really doesn't. But the grapevine posts have been pulled and the vines are laying on the ground more or less at that angle. The view is good--now. No vines in the way. But what is going in there? I hope not hops which have gone in farther down the road. The market for hops, which has been down for several years, is up again. Hop trellises are tall. If that is going in, there goes the view!