| When I visited Oregon again in 1986 the Gorge was one of the places I specifically asked to go see again. When I moved to Portland in 1996 I wasted no time returning to the many gorgeous waterfalls as often as I could. In 2007 a friend of my fiance's came to visit from San Marcos TX. He was in town for a web developer/programmer type of conference but arranged to arrive early so he could stay with us for a day before the event began. We both quickly decided that in addition to showing him Portland highlights such as the Rose Garden and Powells Books that we had to make a trip out to the Gorge. It was also the first time I had been out there with a nice new digital camera!
The view out the car window as we headed east on I-84. That's Mt. Hood off to the right.
Leaving the freeway and heading up into the Gorge the first place we stopped at was the Crown Point Vista House.
Some interior shots:
The view from Crown Pt. looking west (back towards Portland):
Crown Pt. view looking east:
Then we proceeded to the first of the falls. Probably the best known and certainly highly photographed. Multnomah Falls
A view of the upper part of the falls:
Now the lower:
A closer look at the bottom of the upper part just under the bridge (you can see at the bottom of the frame the start of the lower fall):
Lush late spring greenery with the falls:
And off to the side of the path some sun-dappled bleeding hearts in the forest foliage:
We continued down the old Historic Columbia River Highway and stopped at Latourell Falls next.
Through the trees:
Then a stop at Horsetail Falls:
We stopped at a few other smaller waterfalls but my camera was running low on batteries and I felt I had taken a gajillion waterfall shots already;) Then we headed back towards Portland and decided to indulge by having dinner at one of my favorite places: McMenamins Edgefield where we wandered around the grounds showing our guest the winery, distillery, brewery, hotel and movie theater pub before sitting down for some of the tasty craft beers & juicy burgers. As we headed out of the parking lot and down the road to get back onto the freeway the sun was setting in a haze and I snapped one final pic to close out the day:
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I fell in love with the 
