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Elyse, I was just up around the Peninsula about a month ago,
and spent the night in Port Angeles. One of these days, I'll get some of those photos posted, too!
posted by
Ciel
on June 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM
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I was in Washington a couple months ago, Port Angeles and that area. Oh I wish I could have seen this area as well. Stunning~ Gorgeous --- Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on June 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM
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Ciel
Thanks for the explanation! Sounds like fascinating country. Aside from one trip to Portland, Oregon and a couple to Vancouver, B.C., I haven't been out West, being more easterly oriented. But I should really explore it a bit more...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 4, 2008 at 6:43 PM
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Wow, wish I was there!
posted by
shelly_b
on June 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM
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Naut, the Palouse Hills are the southeastern corner of Washington State.
We call all the territory east of the Columbia the Palouse Country after the sagey plant called palouse that grows everywhere in this high desert area.
Much of the area has been reclaimed for agriculture and ranching, but where it is wild, you can see the layers upon layers of lavas that underly all of it. Back in the far-back-when, fissures in the earth oozed and gushed lavas that spread in sheets for miles and miles over this whole Washington/Oregon plain--this was before mountains pushed up all the wrinkles along the coast and inland.
After the last glaciation, one day the ice damn between these lands and Lake Missoula--which was about the size of Montana--broke( you might have seen the movie) and all its waters swept over Washington, smoothing, carving, shifting--creating in its wake what we call the Scablands, with chunks and buttes of the ancient lavas poking up through the soil and the Palouse. It created Dry Falls, between Spokane and the Columbia, north of I-90.
Driven by wind, the glacial silts blew into the dunes that are now those hollows and hills that are reminiscent of Tuscany's hills.
Steptoe Butte is a granite pegmatite--I think that is the right term--thrusting up from the lavas, through the silts. Geologists call any such landform a steptoe, named for this one.
There ya go, located in time and space... ! I'm thinking google-earth or something similar might have some very interesting views from high altitude.
posted by
Ciel
on June 2, 2008 at 8:36 AM
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It may take a little time and effort, but you will succeed. Also, you will love the wild beauty of the Flint Hills of Kansas.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 2, 2008 at 8:26 AM
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TAPS, now I will have to go check out the Flint Hills!
I blush at your words, and agree... 
I'm workin' on it! Got a whole lotta cards goin' on lately, and I'm looking around at who I know who can make a proper website to display and sell from. I have registered The Roving Eye and got my business officially 'on.'
Your encouragement--everybody's, here on Blogit, has inspired me to get out of the house, out of the safe niche, and go for it!
posted by
Ciel
on June 2, 2008 at 8:22 AM
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Ciel
Thos colours are stunning! But I have no clear conception of where this is...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 1, 2008 at 7:53 PM
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Ahhhhh! Gorgeous country. The pictures remind me a bit of The Flint Hills in Kansas. But, that second picture is prettier than any I've ever taken there. You are such a great photographer. You should be famous.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 1, 2008 at 6:23 PM
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Sam, it is a truly wonderful, inspiring part of the country!
posted by
Ciel
on June 1, 2008 at 4:02 PM
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Thanks, Justi! I love taking them, too!
posted by
Ciel
on June 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM
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Ceil
I love you photographs.
posted by
Justi
on June 1, 2008 at 12:09 PM
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I am enthralled with the beauty of the landscape! sam
posted by
sam444
on May 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM
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