Pancake Fly-in at Desert Aire

Flew over this morning for the annual pancake breakfast hosted by the folks at Desert Aire (M94, near Mattawa, WA.). Desert Aire is a retirement/fly-in community with their own golf course and bordered by Priest Rapids Lake. Seattle was cool and overcast with 50 degrees while the temps over in Eastern Washington were a balmy 80 and nothing but sun. The flight over was spectacular and once climbing on top of the overcast layer, all of the Washington (and some Oregon) peaks were visible. It was interesting how the cloud layer just ended about 50 miles East of Seattle. The second photo shows the border of the cloud deck as I was heading West back to Seattle at 8000'.