The Yakima Canyon

The one thing you have to appreciate about Washington state is the variety of the landscape. On the west side of the Cascade Mountains it is literally a rainforest, moss hangs from the trees. Along with that there is Ocean beaches, mountains, the Olympics and the Cascades, Puget Sound, and the green. With the amount of rain that falls here in the Pacific Northwest, lets just say it is not green for nothing.
However drive across the Cascades and the landscape dramatically, green turns to brown, tress turns to sage brush, it has a rugged beauty all its own.

These are photos taken in the Yakima canyon area, as you can see it is a dramatic change, and it is a three hour drive from the Seattle Metropolitan area.  In future posts I have more eastern Washington photos to put up.