Oregon has a justly deserved reputation for being rainy. Of course, that only refers to the portion of the state west of the Cascades. The eastern half is, as you can see from the vegetation, quite dry. Oddly enough, we didn't get rained on hardly at all during our entire vacation, spent mostly in the western part of the state, except for when this storm caught up with us out on the high desert and it rained cats and dogs for a few minutes.