February 17, 2014 - Orchard in February

A warm, sunlit February day brings a hint of what will come as the weather gets warmer in this Manson, Washington orchard.  Soon these and 10,000 acres of orchards in Chelan County will be green.  By the summer the branches will be heavy with fruit.  For now, they are sparse and quiet; optimistic.  While not all of the orchards produce apples, they are by far the most common in the region.  In Washington over 4 billion pounds of apples are harvested each year from the 175,000 acres of orchards.

February 14, 2010 - Mid-Morning on Lake Chelan

A calm mid-winter’s morning view of Lake Chelan from Wapato Point in Manson on the East shore. Lake Chelan sits in central Washington State, nestled in the North Cascades National Forest. It is a 50.5 mile glacier-fed lake is 1.5 miles at its widest and 1486 ft. at its deepest point. The population of the valley consists of 10,000 year-round residents and several hundred more part-time residents.