Picture of where I grew up. Comments?

[pokerfan]

[bridgit]

1. it's lovely, i like it, where is it?

:bounce:

[pokerfan]

3. I'll wait a little while before revealing

But National Geographic called it a paradise.

[supernova]

7. Either New Zealand, Ireland or England

[pokerfan]

8. Drum roll...... the big reveal is....

http://www.washingtonstatetours.com/palouse.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palouse

http://images.google.com/images?q=palouse&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

[speedoo]

12. I hope to visit Walla Walla in a few weeks.

Visiting family in Portland, OR and I want to make a trip to some wineries there, as well as in the Wllamette Valley. :hi:

[pokerfan]

13. Walla Walla has some good wineries

But don't forget the Yakima valley.


In fact, I would suggest a scenic trip via highway 12 over White Pass (side trip to see Rainier) and descending to Yakima then over to Walla Walla (the town so nice they named it twice). On the return trip, take highway 14 on the Washington side of the Columbia (much more scenic than I-84 in eastern Oregon) until you get to Biggs Junction. Then I-84 through the most impressive part of the gorge.

Make sure you stop for Multnomah Falls:

[speedoo]

17. Actually, Walla Walla has some GREAT wineries.

But very few people are aware of how superb some of the wines are. Some cabernets are coming out of Walla Walla that rival the best from Napa.

I've seen the Gorge in prior visits and the "Twin Peaks" Falls and the Lodge. Wierd seeing them. Multnomah Falls are different, right?

I love the Pacific Northwest... could very well move there soon, for the rest of my life.

[pokerfan]

19. Yeah, Multnomah Falls are right off the intestate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_Falls

Ever drive the North Cascade Highway?



I *heart* my state.

[billyskank]

20. England doesn't look like that

I've never seen fields so colourful before.

[SPKrazy]

2. Rolling Hills, Farmland

where is that?

Could be Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, hell anywhere actually. I like the rolling hills.

:hi:

[pokerfan]

11. Kansas is known for its hills?

I kid. I'm sure that Kansas has hills but probably not like these.

The Palouse is a geological wonder. Google the Missoula ice age floods or the channeled scab lands. The Palouse was spared all of that devastation by simple elevation.

Wind blown silt loess from the last ice age deposited the wonderful topsoil in the form of the dunes. Early travelers considered the land worthless but eastern Europeans (Germans) had already perfected the art of winter wheat and immigrated to this area in great numbers in the 1880's.

Our father was born in those hills and when he died we saved his ashes in an urn. When our mother died seven summers later, we stirred her ashes in with his and then scattered them together on the highest hill on the farm. I'm sure it's in the picture but I've never been able to positively identify it. It's somewhere in the upper right.

Ah heck, didn't mean to get all treacly there.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Could that land BE any more hilly?

It must be hard to make a level dwelling anywhere. How do you keep the milk from spilling?

I'm kidding.

I'm a kidder. It's beautiful.

[pokerfan]

5. I was always afraid the tractor would roll

Some of the slopes reach 50%.

[begin_within]

6. Follow the yellow brick road...

[billyoc]

9. How's Gandalf?

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

10. Smoking the Longbottom Leaf I would imagine

I always thought it looked a little like I always pictured The Shire. We even have our own version of Weathertop from which the first picture in this thread was taken.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steptoe_Butte

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Great photo....

I knew it wasn't Ireland. It's not green enough.

Excellent landscape.

[pokerfan]

16. You should see it in May

when it's all green.



But the first picture in the thread shows much more contrast. I've been on top of that butte countless times. My pictures never turn out that well.

[NMDemDist2]

22. is that from Steptoe Butte?

it's beautiful!

[pokerfan]

24. I think so

not positive.

The first pic is for sure.

[Tom_Foolery]

15. It looks like a Grant Wood painting...

Absolutely beautiful!

[SeattleGirl]

18. Stunning photo!

:thumbsup:

[NMDemDist2]

21. that looks like Palouse country

my hubby's family still farms there

:hi:

[pokerfan]

25. Where abouts?

Our farm was between Spangle and Waverly.

[NMDemDist2]

26. out side Tekoa

:hi:

[pokerfan]

28. I know where that is

I drive highway 27 to WSU games.

[HamdenRice]

23. It's amazing how property lines get incorporated into landscape

I take it the line running down the middle is a property line. If two neighoring farmers grow different things or sow or mow grass at different times or have different land use, you get these visible lines.

It's pretty remarkable too that they plow right up to their property lines.

[pokerfan]

27. Today they use GPS

In the old days, encroachment was a common complaint and source of conflict.