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Birds aplenty... -
A few days ago, when a storm bearing snow and freezing rain belted Blue Mountain Country, I figured elk would stream down from the high country.As they did last winter.An estimated 3,500 of the big browsers migrated onto winter wheat fields in the McKay C...
A few days ago, when a storm bearing snow and freezing rain belted Blue Mountain Country, I figured elk would stream down from the high country.As they did last winter.An estimated 3,500 of the big browsers migrated onto winter wheat fields in the McKay C...
A Desert Refuge -
We visited Frog Lake on the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, about 14 miles out of Othello, on a warm mid-January day.We didn’t see or hear any frogs for a couple of reasons. We visited the lake in January, and, well, the lake had no water.By the way, “...
We visited Frog Lake on the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, about 14 miles out of Othello, on a warm mid-January day.We didn’t see or hear any frogs for a couple of reasons. We visited the lake in January, and, well, the lake had no water.By the way, “...
Palouse Falls frozen? -
An irksome rumor circulated in my domestic circle during the final freezing days of 2011. It claimed that Palouse Falls had frozen solid.Imagine.I scoffed, of course. Yet, my conduit insisted her source had seen a photo of the frozen falls.Ha!Ooops!A patr...
An irksome rumor circulated in my domestic circle during the final freezing days of 2011. It claimed that Palouse Falls had frozen solid.Imagine.I scoffed, of course. Yet, my conduit insisted her source had seen a photo of the frozen falls.Ha!Ooops!A patr...
A filtered view -
A secretive Santa’s elf slipped a gray, graduated neutral-density filter into my stocking where I found it on Christmas morning.It screws onto the end of a camera’s lens.The dark half of it, normally turned to the top, resembles sunglasses.With this filte...
A secretive Santa’s elf slipped a gray, graduated neutral-density filter into my stocking where I found it on Christmas morning.It screws onto the end of a camera’s lens.The dark half of it, normally turned to the top, resembles sunglasses.With this filte...
South Fork Walla Walla River Trail leads painful fall -
Judging from the wet spot on my jacket’s left sleeve and the damp chill on my left buttock, I had hit the frozen ground on my side.It happened on an uphill two-track 20 yards past the crumbling Demaris Cabin on the South Fork Walla Walla River Trail.I hit...
Judging from the wet spot on my jacket’s left sleeve and the damp chill on my left buttock, I had hit the frozen ground on my side.It happened on an uphill two-track 20 yards past the crumbling Demaris Cabin on the South Fork Walla Walla River Trail.I hit...
A Little Luck -
The temperature may have reached into the 20s around noon on a recent mid-December weekday.An extended period of air stagnation, with its freezing fog and light snow, had decorated the flora along Mill Creek with dazzling designs, especially between Tausi...
The temperature may have reached into the 20s around noon on a recent mid-December weekday.An extended period of air stagnation, with its freezing fog and light snow, had decorated the flora along Mill Creek with dazzling designs, especially between Tausi...
Muskrat Love -
I slowed, stopped and idled the truck backward.“Beavers?” I asked.“Yes,” Darlene said.“Well, maybe,” she added, a tad less sure about “two beavers” swimming in an algae-covered pond beside Frog Hollow Road. I stopped parallel to the pond and leaned to pee...
I slowed, stopped and idled the truck backward.“Beavers?” I asked.“Yes,” Darlene said.“Well, maybe,” she added, a tad less sure about “two beavers” swimming in an algae-covered pond beside Frog Hollow Road. I stopped parallel to the pond and leaned to pee...
Winter in Wallowa -
We started out before noon to check snow conditions on Weston Mountain at Morning Creek, Woodland Campground, Andies Prairie and Summit Road.We ended up at Wallowa Lake as the sun sank behind Chief Joseph Mountain.Then we dined at Heavenly’s Restaurant an...
We started out before noon to check snow conditions on Weston Mountain at Morning Creek, Woodland Campground, Andies Prairie and Summit Road.We ended up at Wallowa Lake as the sun sank behind Chief Joseph Mountain.Then we dined at Heavenly’s Restaurant an...
Hiking the Lewis and Clark Commemorative Trail -
I heard geese honking.Nora the Schnauzer and I had trekked west from Government Beach on the Lewis and Clark Commemorative Trail for about five minutes.The geese honked in jarring, wrap-around sound.I surveyed the sky. Clear, icy blue.A perfect penultimat...
I heard geese honking.Nora the Schnauzer and I had trekked west from Government Beach on the Lewis and Clark Commemorative Trail for about five minutes.The geese honked in jarring, wrap-around sound.I surveyed the sky. Clear, icy blue.A perfect penultimat...
Strolls along Mill Creek this time of year turn into a staredown with Little Unit -
At dusk on Monday of last week, the Great Blue Heron that I call “Little Unit,” and that I have been watching along Mill Creek for a few weeks, had something caught in his throat.He (or she?) gagged as if he needed a solid back slap.Or two.He gagged for 1...
At dusk on Monday of last week, the Great Blue Heron that I call “Little Unit,” and that I have been watching along Mill Creek for a few weeks, had something caught in his throat.He (or she?) gagged as if he needed a solid back slap.Or two.He gagged for 1...
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