RHH's photos with the keyword: dry falls

These are a few more photos from Dry Falls State Park in eastern Washington. My wife and I were there at the beginning of a recent trip through Washington, Oregon and northern California, but these photos were taken on another excursion with the Washington Native Orchid Society. I believe this formation is named Umatilla Rock.

This is another photo from Dry Falls State Park in eastern Washington.

South of Dry Falls State Park in eastern Washington are Lake Lenore Caves an area where there are many shallow caves in the bluffs that were once used by native Americans. This is one of those caves, the photograph taken on an excursion with the Washington Native Orchid Society. It is a bit of a hike to the caves but worth the effort.

I am not at all certain of the ID on this Damselfly. They all look very much alike. So if anyone has a better idea, I would welcome a correction. The photos were taken at Dry Falls State Park in central Washington on a Washington Native Orchid Society field trip.

I believe this is a Western Forktail Damselfly but stand to be corrected. They all look very much alike. This one was photographed at Dry Falls State Park in central Washington.

An important plant for Monarch Butterflies this Milkweed also has very beautiful flowers. The flowers were photographed in Dry Falls State Park, one of the places we visited on our recent Washington, Oregon and California trip.

Monarch butterfly caterpillars feed only on Milkweed plants. This Milkweed is native to the western USA and though it grows near our home also, was photographed in Dry Falls State Park.

We photographed this beautiful wildflower in Dry Falls State Park in Washinton while traveling through the state to Oregon and Calfiornia.

This is another wildflower we went to see at Dry Falls State Park in Washington on our recent trip. Though it also grows near our home, it is much more common in the park. It is quite a large flower but we had a hard time photographing it since it was quite windy.

Photographed in Dry Falls State Park, this beautiful Mariposa Lily also grows near our home.

Photographed in Dry Falls State Park, this beautiful wildflower also grows near our home.

Dry Falls State Park is in eastern Washington about two hours drive west of Spokane. Geologists speculate that the area was formed by what are called the Missoula Floods, caused by the periodic rupture of an ice dam on a glacial lake in western Montana. The long line of cliffs on the other side of these lakes was believed to have been one gigantic waterfall at that time. This was our first stop on our trip which is now nearly over. We stopped here June 10th to do some orchid and wildflower photography and to see a place that my wife had not seen. We saw there an orchid which is rare in Washington but grows here by the thousands and saw and photographed several other wildflowers, as well as doing some hiking, though the mosquitoes were bad. Yesterday we drove up from the area of Bend, Oregon, to Blewett Pass south of Leavenworth, Washington. We drove up a forestry road, did some hiking and gem hunting (thunder eggs and agates) in the area of Red Top, an old fire lookout in Blewett Pass. The wildflowers there were spectacular, but the gem hunting a bit of a bust. We found only some small inclusions. Today we head further north to our son and daughter-in-law and will be staying with them over the weekend and attending a wedding, returning home Monday or Tuesday - Tuesday if we decide to go fruit picking (strawberries, raspberries and blueberrries). We usually get berries there for canning and freezing, for pies and other such delicacies and as jams and syrups.

This, near Deep Lake, was where we did a bit of hiking in Dry Falls State Park in eastern Washington, even though the mosquitoes were quite bad. The columnar basalt cliffs are common in the park and the lakes very beautiful. The wildflowers were very good, too, and we were there especially to see a rare Milkweed as well as a rare Mariposa Lily.

It was on the shore of Deep Lake in Dry Falls State Park in eastern Washington that we did some hiking on the first day of our trip through Washington, Oregon and California. We were orchid and wildflower hunting here and I was showing my wife a place I had been to once but which she had not visited.