with the small hardy, early spring wildflowers fading the Arrowleaf Balsam root wildflowers are popping up on the hillsides of the Palouse. A bright yellow flower that enjoys the easy living of mid spring through mid summer. #wildflower #pnw #inlandnorthwest

Per Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #LongNecks, birds with long necks. Alt Theme is #Gulls. Here's a Canadian Goose flying by, low over the Palouse river. #birds 🪶 #inlandnorthwest

Unexpected Creature Birders have a saying: “When the book and the bird disagree, always believe the bird.” This phrase came to mind last week when a friend and I watched perplexedly as a smooth brown mamma…

Some shots of a creature I did not expect to see at an isolated lake in the Channeled Scablands:
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#naturephotography #easternwashington #inlandnorthwest #channeledscablands

The big color of the little Yellow Fritillary aka Yellowbell. One of March's little wildflowers brightening the hillsides. Happy Monday #mothernaturerocks #wildflowers #nature #washingtonstate #inlandnorthwest #pnw

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The #birdoftheday theme today is #marriedcouples Here's a long distance shot, 5/2024, of a married couple plus junior who had been raising their young at this spot for 10+ years. Recent houses being built nearby seems to have chased them away 😠. #baldeagles #washingtonstate #inlandnorthwest

Out of the Shadows Introducing The Unwritten Chapter: A story of survival, a trailer in the Inland Northwest, and why you matter.

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Here we go, #Spokane. Wind storm underway. #wawx #InlandNorthwest

Some calm, peaceful moments in yesterdays wind. #nature #wildlife #elk #inlandnorthwest #peaceful #washingtonstate

a look at the greening winter wheat on the Palouse. #washingtonstate #inlandnorthwest

glad to see that clean, green & low cost energy generation on a cold day when it's most needed. #washingtonstate #inlandnorthwest #winterviews #landscapephotography #rollinghills

The view (or not) from the top of a recently reopened Steptoe Butte in SE Washington State. You can tell which way the wind was blowing. #hikingwithdog #washingtonstate #inlandnorthwest

Great opportunity to get some native flowers in your life for folks in the #InlandNorthWest, even if you can't do a garden!

@alan6789.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #OpenBeak, birds with beaks open, the Alt theme is #OpenWings, birds with wings out. My favorite open beak is when a Western Meadowlark is announcing the arrival of spring in the #inlandnorthwest of #washingtonstate 🪶 #birds

Breath of Winter Winter thus far in the Northwest has left much to be desired, but even in this seemingly endless snow drought, there as been some magic. The entire region was stuck under a cold inversion for many …

A set of hoarfrost photos from an amazing morning last week
#landscapephotography #winter #washington #inlandnorthwest #palouse #hoarfrost

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Closeup photograph of ponderosa pine covered in very long hoarfrost needles. The scene is almost totally frost-covered, but the distinctive firework-burst shape of ponderosa needles at the end of a branch can be made out. The frost needles spread everywhere, looking like the almost fuzzy spikes of an especially nasty cactus.

Not much real #cold around here this winter, but there was some incredible frost this week.
#BlueSkyArtShow #frost #inlandnorthwest #easternwashington #palouse #ponderosa

upward & onward #nature #inlandnorthwest #hikingwithdog

Ice Age Floods Animation - Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail (U.S. National Park Service)

"Wake up, babe, new Lake Missoula Floods animation just dropped."
#washington #iceagefloods #lakemissoula #pleistocene #geomorphology #scablands #PNW #inlandnorthwest
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Seasonal Trees Christmas this year is a bit of an odd one, for us at least, with ongoing extended family challenges and seemingly invincible warmth. So perhaps it’s apt to share some seasonally inappropriat…

Some not entirely seasonally appropriate trees for Christmas Day:
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#landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #larch

Landscape photograph of rolling hills under a stormy sunset. Beyond the hills is a larger, darker mountain, stretching nearly across the frame, with a crown of fog flowing over its ridge. The sky is dominated by blue-gray clouds, but behind them is a smooth wash of peach-colored sunset.

Autumn skies were great on the Palouse this year! A few more here: frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/l...
#landscapephotography #easternwashington #palouse #inlandnorthwest

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Photograph of autumn forest understory scene, dominated by five prominent tree trunks surrounded by golden and orange underbrush.

Local color from an unassuming nearby path.
#landscapephotography #autumn #palouse #easternwashington #inlandnorthwest

The Perfect Loveliness of Home “Why so glorious in the fall? Biology and astronomy reach a showy crescendo, and who could it be for? .… Maybe it’s for no one, a happenstance of grace the world can’t help making, as if divinity f…

Some Thanksgiving-ish images and musings:
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#landscapephotography #easternwashington #autumn #palouse #inlandnorthwest

Vertical landscape photo of a scene with autumn trees, fog and a creek. The creek is flowing through a steep bed of large rounded cobbles and small boulders. The smattering of yellow trees is set amidst a mountainside thickly wooded with evergreens, with the fog playing and extruding tendrils among them.

Autumn mood
#landscapephotography #autumn #idaho #idahopanhandle #inlandnorthwest #fog

Landscape photo of mostly barren hills covered in dry grass. In a swale in the hills is a line of bare trees, with one spot of autumn yellow still visible. In the distance, wooded mountains appear dark and small under a metallic cloudy sky.

Grass, wind and space under chilly November sky
#landscapephotography #easternwashington #okanogan #inlandnorthwest

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Hello, New Week!
What an absolutely breathtaking view from my penthouse suite at the #DavenportGrand, #Spokane! That sunrise over the city is a reminder that every Monday is a fresh canvas, full of light and unlimited potential.

#mondaymotivation #inlandnorthwest #luxurytravel #SpokaneDoesntSuck

Photo of hilly landscape under a cloudy, misty sky. Hills of faded yellow and green wheat stubble fill the foreground, while a line of larger, darker summits lies beyond, with fog banks playing on their tops. The sky above is fully clouded with a color mix of stormy blue, pale gray and very subtle hints of rose.

Subtle stormy sunrise yesterday morning
#inlandnorthwest #palouse #easternwashington #landscapephotography

Visions from the October Country Bull River Valley, Montana “The October Country… that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusk…

An October favorite post from a few years back:
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#landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #idahopanhandle #northidaho #idaho #autumn #october

Photograph of heavy fog spreading through a wooded canyon. The pale gray fog bank dominates the center and upper right of the image. At bottom in the foreground is a stand of conifer trees, including several larches starting to turn their autumn yellow. At upper left silhouettes of cliffs and trees can be made out through the mist.

Canyon filling with fog
#landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #larch #fog #autumn