Teresa and I went to Eastern Washington and spent the 4th of July weekend touring The Palouse. Beautiful country, but seemingly not a lot to do unless you are a farmer of a photographer. We started out on Saturday around noon heading for Palouse Falls State Park around the middle of the state. The falls come out the side of a cliff due to the eroded canyon the Palouse River runs through at that point and are quite spectacular. Unfortunately, due to our early start we arrived mid afternoon and the light wasn't great. I would really like to go back there for sunrise or sunset. I have seen pictures of the area that are breathtaking.
On to Colfax, WA after that and our base for the weekend. We explored the surrounding area from there. Up at 3:30AM to get to Steptoe Butte both Sunday and Monday for sunrise and driving all over the back roads to find interesting fields and scenes. The Palouse is a region of southeastern Washington and north central Idaho and is a major agricultural area, primarily producing wheat and legumes. The peculiar and picturesque silt dunes which characterize the Palouse Prairie were formed during the ice ages. Silt was blown in from the glacial out-wash plains to the west and south. The Palouse hills consist of more or less random humps and hollows. These hills with their wheat make for some very nice photographs.
