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Two-track Way
It was extremely difficult for us to make any forward progress while driving around the Palouse: every single road that took off from the highway promised views like this. And every one of them that we didn’t drive on felt like a million missed opportunities.
Zakarison Road
near Fallon, Washington
photographed 9.3.2020
Endless Grain
And, finally, we’ve arrived at what we drove all that way to look at: the Palouse. I’ve wanted to go there for ten years; my expectations were very high, both in terms of photographic value and in beauty of landscape. I was not disappointed in either.
A chatty fellow at a cafe told me that I was there at the “wrong” time, that June was when I ought to have visited because that’s when the famous Palouse wheat fields are green. In spite of that, I am glad I went in the fall, when the harvest was underway. The fields, all in different stages of the harvest, were different colors and textures. And they changed every day.
Steptoe Butte, Washington
photographed 9.1.2020
Three Feet and Two Chairs
It was a calm morning in Bozeman – the pool became a mirror.
(Fun story: it was soon to be less calm, as my other camera took a bit of a lens-first dive onto a concrete floor. The floor won. But Bozeman Camera and Repair saved the day – and the vacation – and we were soon on the road with a brand new lens.)
RSVP Hotel
Bozeman, Montana
photographed 8.29.2020
Visitor center without visitors
Travel in the summer of the pandemic meant a road trip instead of flying to our destination, a lot of picnics, learning new rules every time we got to a new state, and visitor centers that weren’t accepting visitors.
Little Bighorn National Battleground, Montana
photographed 8.28.2020
Row on Row
This site has been a national cemetery since 1879; the original designation, three years after the battle of Little Bighorn, was intended to protect graves of the 7th Cavalry troopers buried there. In 1886, The site was proclaimed National Cemetery of Custer’s Battlefield Reservation to include burials of other campaigns and wars. The name has been since been shortened to “Custer National Cemetery.” (from Wikipedia.)
Custer National Cemetery
Little Bighorn National Battleground, Montana
photographed 8.28.2020
One Day | One Image 