Waking up in a raining morning after Thanksgiving in Portland typically is slightly depressing. We were trying our best to enjoy that notorious humidity and chilling temporary outside the house, which isn’t exactly an easy thing to do. But hiking in the woods is always a good way to enlighten our mood a bit. The Columbia River and Mount Hood gracefully fill our view when we made our way to the view point. The late Autumn seems to already chip away most of the greens from the land. At late November fall foliage has already blanketed almost the entire area. Perhaps this is a good season to fall in love with the great Pacific Northwest.