North of Reardan, Wa

The road heading north from Reardan, Washington. The Spokane River passes east to west where the trees are in the background.

East Medical Lake

The dogs and I found this hillside structure on one of our excursions on the ice of East Medical Lake in mid February 2009. Could not tell what the structure had been used for. I would say it was last used about 1920 or so. Perhaps some sort of pumping facility. Or, maybe it was a place to keep things cool in the summer and warm in the winter. A "root cellar." Seems I read there once was a residence in the vicinity long ago.

Whatever it was, the dogs and I were pleased to find it.

We went back onto the ice once we had finished our explorations.

Spokane Airport Stutuary

This is a picture of the moose and wolves statuary at the Spokane International Airport. It is mid-Frebruary.

Spokane

The Palouse on a February Afternoon

The Palouse looking southeast on a February afternoon in 2009. The sky has not completely cleared since the middle of December. I remember such a sky and thus to look at this sky awakens hope and the thrill of the sharp visual difference between blue and white. As we move toward a more austere manner of living, we will begin to take ever greater pleasure in nature and the strange phenomenon of the unfolding of the seasons. In three months time, the open land in white will be all green with winter wheat. Warmer and warmer breezes will float over the land.