Make it to the top of Steptoe Butte in Whitman County, Washington, and you’ll be rewarded with fields of grains forming undulating patterns — waving and rippling and laying out curvy lines for miles into the distance.
View from Steptoe Butte, Washington
This week’s Word a Week Photo Challenge: Undulate reminded us of our trip through The Palouse in eastern Washington where we first spotted snake-like lines of amber fields from our airplane. Â But when we found (quite by accident) Steptoe Butte State Park and drove the spiral route to the top of this quartzite island, we knew we were in for a breathtaking panorama of America’s wheatland.
Steptoe Butte stands tall among the Palouse hills.
Rippled land ebbs and flows with the curvature of the land and uneven, meandering boundaries of crops.
Rippled landscape of The Palouse
The Palouse — just one of those Inland Northwest memorable finds with the best scenery from “up top” at Steptoe Butte.
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For more posts on our travels through the Inland Northwest, check out the page at the top of this blog. Â Thanks for traveling with us!
FreeRangeCow
Rusha! I keep telling my coastal-born hubby that there is beauty in the grain…you captured it really well! Some see brown? I see LIFE! Beautiful work (and you nailed your theme). ;oP
Rusha Sams
Thanks. I don’t really understand why I have such an intense love of that area, but I really, really do. Perhaps it’s the quiet, the loneliness, the expanse. Not sure. But I have one more trip in May to see it again. 🙂
NW Frame of Mind
The perfect choice for this challenge!
FireBonnet
Yes!!!!! Wonderful take on this theme! And marvelous photographs of the undulating fields.
Rusha Sams
Thanks so much for reading! It was a glorious site, and one I’d love to see again! Such a pretty part of the country.
Rusha Sams
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the photos — I really enjoy this area!!!