I spent 9 days photographing Cowlitz County, which consists of towns Longview, Kelso, Castle Rock and Woodland, for the Images of Cowlitz County magazine. Out of those nine days, it was cloudy or rainy eight of them.
On Saturday night, I had a little down time with the rain and picked up a copy of National Geographic and some sushi at the local Safeway. The magazine featured a cover story on Stonehenge and the sushi was a California Roll, about the safest sushi you can get at a grocery store.
On Sunday, I decided to do a little sightseeing. I had learned about some wind farms less than three hours away in Klickitat County Washington and decided to get out of town for a while. The weather was still crappy so there wasn't going to much to photograph in Cowlitz.
It was a pleasant drive up I84. I passed Mount Hood, saw Mount St. Helens in the distance, beautiful Multnomah Falls and kiteboarders on the Hood River.
What I didn't expect, was to pass Stonehenge along the way.
At the intersection of highways 14 and 97, just off I84 is a little town called Maryhill. Sitting off on a hill, is Stonehenge.
The Stonehenge in Maryhill is a memorial to soldiers from Klickitat County Washington that died in World War I. Sam Hill, a Quaker and pacifist, started building the monument in 1918 after visiting England during the war. It was completed in 1929.
At the time Hill starting construction on the monument, it was believed that Stonehenge was a site for human sacrifices to pagan gods. Hill said "After all our civilization, the flower of humanity still is being sacrificed to the god of war on fields of battle."
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