ARCHIVE - Landscapes of Change: Dry Falls » Umatilla snake saddle http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls Writing & Mapping the Future Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:36:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 ARCHIVE - Umitilla Snake Saddle: Maps http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/30/umitilla-rock-saddle/ http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/30/umitilla-rock-saddle/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:11:35 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/?p=3181 ]]> http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/30/umitilla-rock-saddle/feed/ 0 47.6002083 -119.3558502 ARCHIVE - Umatilla Snake Saddle: Field Notes http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/25/umatilla-snake-saddle-fieldnotes/ http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/25/umatilla-snake-saddle-fieldnotes/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:09:17 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/?p=2357 Continue reading ]]> Touch: By the time I write this it’s wet. Small raindrops sprinkle expectantly on my hands. The stone is rough and scratchy where I touch. The stone cracked and unstable. The grass is smooth and my feet slip slightly against it. It is windy here.

Smell: It smells of dust here. Dry dry dry, though the sky smells expectantly of rain.

Sight: Most of this place is sight, we are up about 40 feet and the view is amazing. To my right I can see green lake. From here it looks like it got some water from the rainy nights. It also seems to be brownish red, with white near the edges. Here on the butte there is lichen growing on the walls, which extend another 20 feet up from where we are, green in places, rusty in others, often a combination of the two.

Taste: The place tastes of untouched stone. A bit dusty, very very old. Somehow coming close enough to kiss a stone impresses it’s age upon me. This place tastes older than the oldest temple known to man.

Sound: Comparatively this place is noisy. Sound travels far here, and I can hear ducks quacking from the lake below, and other birds as well. Hawks, ravens, robins. Cars spin by on the highway, and even voices echo to find me here.

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