Thursday, August 13, 2009

La Palouse de Washington

On our drive home from Spokane, we went south through Washington's Palouse region. This state is so surprising with its wide variety of landscapes! The center of the state can be pretty depressing with its brown sagebrushy hills. However, the far west side is mossy and mountainous, and the far east side has golden grain and rolling hills. Even though the drive from Spokane to Walla Walla took forEVER (thanks to a baby-feeding stop and the small 55mph roads), it was very pretty!

Lovely golden fields of wheat! I would say I'm getting pretty good at taking pictures from the car window while we're driving, but anything that turns out is more luck than skill. (don't worry, Jeff was driving and I was photo-ing)

another from-the-car-picture


When we stopped to feed Jay (at a tiny rest stop an outhouse without running water) , Jeff took the camera and got impressively artistic with its color settings:
old house

he took horse pictures for his horse-loving wife

Jeff's favorite

so...agricultural!

3 comments:

Feinmemmy said...

While the drive takes forever, it is beautiful driving west->east (or vice versa) in Oregon or Washington. The landscape changes so much!

Lovely pictures :-) Very "artistic"!

The Lovell's said...

These pictures make me miss The Palouse so BAD!!!! It's a great place to live!!!

Carleton & Robyn said...

Good job with the camera, Jeff!