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Discover Prompt 22: Tempo

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 […]

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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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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

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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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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Photograph the Palouse (or anywhere really): Tips from the pros

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! […]