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.