Oh, wait a minute! I need to get on my cowboy boots and watch out for those snakes! We don't have poisonous snakes on the western side of the Cascades. Here's another story.
"Palouse, Palouse......."
Okay,okay; I admit it: I'm not a singer! But I like music, and I like the Palouse. NO, it's not a song. It's a place! Here in Eastern Washington. It's a rolling hills, colorful crops, down home kind of a place. It's where a lot of wheat is grown and farmers hang out. Okay, where farmers work, actually. Here's a local's interpretation: http://www.etchings.com/erin/files/palou...
So, take some back roads and you will be surrounded with rolling wheat fields (at the right time of the year) in yellow and other crops in green as far as you can see. Relaxing.
Often, when you are writing, the words don't epitomize what you are trying to convey to folks when portraying the spirit of an area. I got lucky this time. I found and spent time at a farm in the Palouse via the internet - Amber's Wave Page is a great trip through the Palouse.
[Editor's Note: This site is no longer available but you may meet Amber via this article.]
Wheatina, as she calls herself, is an LA implant who lives with her family on a wheat farm in Eastern Washington. The site is awesome. You can visit the farm via a video (download the program), listen to great music, find wheat recipes, meet Women in Ag, catch lots of related web links, chat with farmers live, meet the Ag sisters and see what the current market is for wheat, to name a few things that kept me at the site for over an hour!
Unbelievable.
I was singing with the site before I forced myself to get on to other things. Hope you like it as well as I did. There's also another farm site in Dayton, WA that has a lot of good agricultural links. This is where I found a link to Wheatina's page.
The Palouse, an area that stretches from the Blue Mountains in southeast Washington to Idaho is an awesome place. It contains the richest wheat fields of the northwest. Before they are harvested you can drive through miles of yellow fields that seem magical as they cover the expanse of the wheat center of the state.
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