Ducktrap River Bridge

[artistchick]

The Friday before the last, Luke took me out to Camden Hills State Park to see the bridge that he helped build this summer. We got a few photos, and many of them are stunningly beautiful. There are even a couple that I think would make worthwhile subjects for artwork, possibly an oil pastel piece. I think it's amazing that he helped work on this

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[glass_onion14]

Holy green batman!
The area I live in is classified as semi-desert and it's extremely hot and dry right now so...not much green at the moment.

Beautiful photos, it looks like a gorgeous area and a very cool bridge as well.

[artistchick]

Thanks! It is an awesome area, and the bridge was amazing.

[artistchick]

BC is a semi-desert? I had no idea!

What types of vegetation do you commonly see?

[glass_onion14]

oh no, BC isn't all semi-desert. Most of BC is conifer forests and mountains. Closer to the coast, vancouver area, it's all very green and wet. Looks alot like where you are in the pictures actually.

I live in the Okanagan which is the semi-desert area. Most of the hills are full of a long dry grass and sage brush.

[artistchick]

that's awesome! The sky looks so blue! =)

Thanks for taking the time to reply and to find that picture! Pictures really are worth a thousand words.

[glass_onion14]

The sky is usually pretty blue and nice...except when there's forest fires and it gets all gross and hazy. We've been lucky this year, we haven't had any bad ones like the last couple years. But the possibility is always there since it's so dry.

Arg, some people are so fucking careless! Excuse my language but...FUCK! I was driving behind some trucker the other day and he just tosses out a couple cigarettes onto the side of the road. There was a number on the back of the truck to call if you had driving complaints...so I called it :P I have no clue if that would even help but I did it anyway.

Like...how do people figure that they can just toss things like that on bone-dry grass and not expect anything to happen...is it really that hard just to keep it in your car?? They suck down all the smokey death anyway, keeping it in the car isn't going to kill them any faster. ARG!

haha sorry, went off on a rant tangent there

[artistchick]

haha. No, I understand. Heather throws her butts out in the backyard a lot. It worries me sometimes.

[tiwonge]

That looks like here (northeastern AZ), but we have less grass, and sharp ridges (it's flatter and more perpindicular at the same time) from mesas and such instead of gentle hills. The less grass might be due to over-grazing sheep, cattle and horses, though.