One Room School On the Palouse

Spent many hours wandering about the Palouse in eastern Washington. A few nights ago I came across an old building nestled in some trees. I thought is was an old farmhouse. But, it was not. I was a turn of the century one room school. What a find! Imagine what it must have been like back then. In the fall weeks after harvest and just as the field were finished being seeded with winter wheat the children would be back in school. School, then, as now had a purpose and had its pleasures. For the children one of the pleasures would have been seeing other children every day.

Palouse Harvest 2010

Harvest in the Palouse in southeast Washington is coming to an end. This picture was taken near Plaza, Washington. The combine came to the end of its run and pulled along side the second truck from the left. It then filled the truck with is load of harvested wheat from the elevator on board the combine. I hear wheat is selling at a good price this year. Trouble elsewhere makes this so.