The Lord is my Shepherd

There is nothing I shall want.

Rain

When

 

there

 

is

 

such

 

a cloudburst

 

as this

 

and

 

the sun

 

so bright

 

there

 

HAS

 

to

 

be

 

 

a rainbow.

 double

both sides

 

 

and then

 

all

the way

across.

 



It's my turn?

I thought I had another week before I had got to offer a theme for our header challenge. But no, I was told that it was this week, and they were waiting. The theme is usually offered at the latest at the time of compiling the results of the voting.

Up against it,  and having forgotten all the great ideas I had come up with recently, and without a clue what I would do with it myself, I quickly said STRINGS. So what am I going to do with "Strings"? I am sure the other members of our challenge, known among ourselves as Headbangers and linked in my sidebar were wondering the same thing. (I've got to start making a list when those great them ideas come to me.)

On our trip north to visit the Quilt Barn trail we passed this orchard, and I stopped to take a couple of pictures of the trees trained on strings. I have been this way before, but didn't remember this. There aren't any orchards in our area done this way, though I did see some strung straight up.

The strings don't show up that well.

 

You know how you go by something every day and see right through it?

 

This is the hopyard across the street from our house.

 For the last couple of weeks, the work in the hopyards is stringing the trellises.

The hop plants climb these strings--this view will be solid green this summer. Harvest starts in August. This yard was harvested in late September last year.

These are summer pictures from my files.

Down the row in the hopyard.

The fruit that flavors your beer is called a berry.

Our view of Mount Adams changed considerably when the hopyard was put in .

Hopyard sunset.

Strings!

Headbangers--Curves

I'm late, I'm late, but we have just returned from a morning of errands and seeking out curves, as that is the Header challenge this week. After a very busy week with Easter preparations and himself in the hospital a couple of days, I am not the early bird I usually am. on top of that, I decided that instead of searching the files for some good curves--I am sure I have some excellent ones and will prepare a separate post of them later--that I would go out with the camera and find some.

Himself suggested that after paying a couple of bills, we head up the hill to the Horseheaven Viewpoint, as that road is one with some curves. It is a hill that he uses for a test drive whenever we are looking for a new to us car. You can gauge the power of the vehicle on that climb.

Before heading up the hill, we stopped to pay the power bill, and while he was inside I spotted this bicycle rack which was a great example of utilitarian curves, as was the curved edge of the landscaping edging beyond.

 
 

 

 

 

 

We were going out to find curves that were designed to prevent the need to use a road like this one. Aren't you glad that engineers have found just the right curves to make an ascent of a hill like this one more feasible?

 You can see the some of the curves in the road as we begin our climb. At the top, however, you can see the long stretches of straight--straight across the top of the hills between the wheat fields--between harvest and planting at this time of the year.

 Straight in both directions.

 A long long way across the field to another road.

 I got the straight shots because we had missed the turn into the viewpoint as it is not easy to see from the uphill lane and probably not terribly safe to turn into from there either, with the visibility on that curve at the top of the hill quite limited.

 We could see the curves in the Yakima River below in the valley. Not the curviest part of the river.

 And we could look down the road at the curves that would return us to Prosser.

 The orchards and vineyards below are rather curvy as well.

 And so is Interstate 82 right along here.

 The sidewalk at the viewpoint curves around the tree.

 After our excursion to the viewpoint we went for lunch at Hog Heaven...

 ...where we found quite a few curvy antiques in the décor.

 And on the way back to our car spotted the art deco curves of the Princess Theatre sign. Signs in the windows at the theater reminded me that the Lower Valley Musical Comedy Association is presenting Annie this weekend and next. We need to get our tickets. I hope they are not already sold out. We are wondering who will portray Sandy.

So, there was our excursion in search of curves. Now all I have to do is decide which one to use for the header. I wonder if the other members of our Headbanger challenge will have made an excursion in search of curves, or if they will have found some awesome images in their earlier files. Either is good, and you can see them by clicking their links in my sidebar.

Holy Thursday Sunset

To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.

 

Psalm 116:17-18

It's not just coming, it is here.

Wind machines this morning.

There are more than one kind of wind machine. We have many wind farms in our region for production of electricity, and lots of the old farm windmills for pumps--mostly just for nostalgia.

The wind machines that speak SPRING are the ones that stir up the air so that the buds do not freeze in the spring.

Scent of manure

We headed to pick up prescriptions by the back roads to town. Ewwwwww. Fields have been manured.

It's spring.

What's Up There in the Sky?

Tom gave us headbangers the theme "What's up there in the sky?"

I present something up in the sky and how it got there.

At the Prosser Balloon Rally a couple of years ago I followed this balloon from ground up.

Last September, high winds made it impossible to launch.

There are usually twenty to thirty balloons at the event, arriving Friday and launching Saturday and Sunday.

Good job for a small town---when weather does not interfere.

Other headbangers are also looking to the skies today. Check them out from the links on my sidebar.