forests

We think of Oregon and Idaho as being forests and trout streams.

And that is true, there are areas like that. But there are huge expanses of desert too. Some think desert is ugly and waste. But some of us find great beauty.

So just a few miles from where we camped last weekend, the pine trees give way to sagebrush. No Juniper, just sage and desert grasses.

Just as a cold winter makes you appreciate spring and a hot summer fall, so the deserts make you appreciate the forests, and as the forests give way to the ever present deserts, there is beauty all around!