Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape of the Palouse

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 […]

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Seven fun things to do with kids in downtown Spokane

We are re-publishing this post on the interesting downtown area of Spokane since many Lady Vol fans are headed to Spokane, Washington, for the weekend.  The Lady Vols Basketball Team will play Gonzaga in the NCAA Regionals on Saturday, March 28th at 7:00 PM ET.  Go, Vols!  (For more information:  Lady Vols Basketball.) And enjoy […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

Want scale?  Look no further than Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle! Scaly fish.  Scales to weigh fish.  Or scales in your hand if you let the guys toss one “atcha”! And on a scale from 1 to 10, I’d rate this hug from this always-smilin’ fishmonger a 10 plus! For more entries in the WordPress […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular

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 […]

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Day trippin’ at Palouse Falls State Park

There’s something about a waterfall.  Especially one that cascades 200 feet over a bold precipice, rushing to join the Snake River, eventually making its way through deep cuts of rock.  Perhaps it’s the rush of water.  Or the spray.  Or the sound.  Whatever it is, you can’t avert your eyes — at least for a […]

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Art on the Palouse: Uniontown’s Artisans at the Dahmen Barn

The Palouse — that immense, wheat-growing region of eastern Washington and western Idaho — may not be considered a place for art so much as a place for growing things.  But don’t tell the artisans whose work is displayed at Artisans of the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown, Washington, along Highway 195.  Inside this historic structure reside treasures for sale […]

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Spring comes to the Palouse

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 […]

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Travel theme: Metal

Green Bluff, about 15 miles north of Spokane, Washington, was fairly quiet on Memorial Day weekend.  Blooms on the Bluff — a festival celebrating fruit tree bloom  in this area of growers — had ended just a couple of weeks before, and the Strawberry Festival wouldn’t arrive until June 28th. Green Bluff‘s roads loop around apple orchards […]

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