Never too old to travel!
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. John Ruskin On this day — April 22, 2020 — we celebrate 50 years of Earth Day. And the tempo with which we interact with Mother Earth speaks to our own sense of how we like to interface with the earth as we […]
Read More…Whenever we travel beside a stream, stillness is usually not attainable. The flow of the water, duck paddling along, or the rustle of trees nearby keep life moving. But on this day in 2013, we stopped along the Lewis and Clark Trail, Highway 12, for a brief moment . . . just to take in […]
Read More…Although it’s been two years, our memories of the rolling landscapes of the Palouse, the wheat/lentil/quinoa growing region that overlaps the state boundaries of Washington and Idaho, remain vivid even today. It’s pretty any time, but our first impressions were formed in autumn at harvest time when the vast landscape welcomed green tractors to pull in […]
Read More…Angular forms of barns — new, lived-in, old, abandoned — stand in stark contrast to the curving landscape of The Palouse, America’s largest expanse of grain fields in eastern Washington and western Idaho. And if it weren’t for minimal shoulders along the winding highway, we’d have even more pictures in our collection: It’s a photographer’s […]
Read More…Contrasts come naturally on The Palouse, that area of rolling farmland in Eastern Washington and parts of Idaho. Sunlight, storms, shadows — all contrast nicely with the overlapping fields of wheat, quinoa, oats, and canola which form contrasts of their own. You might think that 5,000 square miles of agricultural landscape would get monotonous, but […]
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Driving through the Palouse can be inspirational, as we’ve written in a previous post (Spring comes to the Palouse). But photographing it can be overwhelming. As we drove through the lush, rolling hills, Kodak moments popped up at every turn — a green field here, red barn over there; buttes, harvesters, canola, lentils — everywhere! […]
Read More…The Palouse is almost spiritual. You can ride for miles among the rolling hills carpeted with the greatest expanse of wheat and grains in the U. S., taking note of a horizon that seems to move fluidly toward clear blue skies of puffy clouds. Or you may be awed with the expanse of sky — gray […]
Read More…A stop at an Idaho tourist information rest area near Post Falls, Idaho, changed the course of our day. We thought we’d go into Coeur d’Alene, walk around the lake, eat at the resort, and take in the beauty of this city of blue waters. But the lady at the tourist information center brought out […]
Read More…If you believe the huge sign hovering over the escalator at the Boise airport, you’d think this is just the City of Trees. And it may well be. But Boise may also be known as the City of Food! We had no idea what two Southern food lovers would find in this Idaho capital city. […]
Read More…It was almost closing time at the Old Idaho Penitentiary when I arrived in Boise after working in Idaho City, but this landmark I’d seen from the Idaho Botanical Gardens next door was on my list of must-see destinations. One of four Territorial Prisons open in the U. S. today and designated a National Historic […]
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