Traveling photographer taking you on an adventure again!
This time my adventure turned into a premature adventure…who would have thought that a few thousand feet in altitude would affect an adventure so much. Let me rewind and explain.
The last two weeks the weather has been sunny, summery and seventy degrees! So I had started to research where in the state I could start to take date trips, I am starting to get stir crazy sitting on the couch. Don’t get me wrong, I love working from home and having the ability to stay with my daughter and not having to worry about putting her in daycare…however, I don’t sit still well. So I devised a plan and a list of places that are maximum of four hours in travel time locations for me to start exploring on days I have a light work load or weekends.
This first location was one I read about in a magazine, Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh, it is a Marsh located near the Boise Natural Forest that is filled with beautiful blue flowers all the way down the valley, I chose to go to this location first because I could visit on my way up to the winery…a little out of the way but a track I could follow in a kind of triangle pattern. 
Since the weather has been so nice lately I thought it would be a great day to take a drive. However, what I didn’t know how high in elevation this place was…try an extra 1500+ in elevation from home. Man did that change things…
…changed things a lot…like 5 feet of snow a lot… 
So I figure I should make the best of it anyways since I was already up there and the little one was still asleep in the backseat. We ventured on…
Though I didn’t find what I was looking for exactly it is interesting to me how a misadventure still has a happy ending…at the end of the road there is still a way to find something new. 
I was excited to be able to take some beautiful winter landscapes, throughout the winter since I was first highly pregnant then had a newborn and wasn’t really in a position to be out traipsing through the snow with an infant. 
The mountains were so crisp and cool, it almost looked like it could be a Coors commercial with the silver bullet train breezing through at any moment. I found it so entertaining to watch the thermostat in my car go drop from 72 degrees to 34 when I reached 5,587 ft altitude then to raise again to 70 as I cruised back down the mountain side again. 
As you can see the snow peaked it was quite deep…so fascinating though to go from green to white back down to green…in just a short amount of time and dropping several hundreds of feet in altitude of course.
More adventures to come!
Traveling Photographer Out…
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