Ash Creek Photo
The Oregon Coast, Cascade Mountains, Columbia Gorge, and Canadian Rockies in Pictures
Scattered around Eastern Oregon are the ruins of a time gone by; empty farmhouses, one room schools, abandoned farm equipment, and collapsing barns.
High on Tygh Ridge, south of The Dalles, Oregon, these Lombardy poplars stand watch over an old homesite. Settlers and early farmers in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington commonly planted rows of Lombardy poplars as windbreaks. They are a tall and graceful tree, but they are also unusually short-lived, as witnessed by the gap in this row and by the dead trunks and limbs.
High on Tygh Ridge, south of The Dalles, Oregon, these Lombardy poplars stand watch over an old homesite. Settlers and early farmers in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington commonly planted rows of Lombardy poplars as windbreaks. They are a tall and graceful tree, but they are also unusually short-lived, as witnessed by the gap in this row and by the dead trunks and limbs.