1. The day was unseasonably sublime when we set out on the Catherine Creek Trail in the Columbia River Gorge. (Above).
2. A light haze of cloud cover was just moving in when we reached the natural arch created when the basalt of an ancient hillside collapsed in who knows what millennium.
3. By the time we headed down a weather front was threatening, and the sun sank into the advancing Pacific Ocean maelstrom.
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