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  • A penmanship workbook left in the old school in Ronald, Kittitas County. (Jerry Gay / The Seattle Times, 1976)
    Write in Kittitas
  • Homes and grapevines on the north side of Lake Chelan, WA. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Lake Chelan
  • An orchard on the banks of the Columbia River, at Orondo, near Wenatchee. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    The other Rainier
  • Balsamroot wildflowers bloom along the Patterson Mountain trail in Winthrop in the Methow Valley. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
    Methow wildflowers
  • Gnarled and silvery sagebrush once covered much of the arid lands of the Northwest.  (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times, 2003)
    Sage plant
  • A commanding view of the Columbia River is seen from atop the Benches vineyard, belonging to Long Shadows winery. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)
    Vineyards above the Columbia
  • Sunset illuminates the countryside near Bennington Lake in Walla Walla. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Walla Walla sunset
  • Once accessed only by foot, horseback and stagecoach line, Moses Coulee is now easily toured by car via Palisades Road. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Palisades Road
  • A Pygmy rabbit soaks up some sun in a controlled rearing site on the edge of Moses Coulee. State Fish and Wildlife biologists are rereleasing the rabbits, which are endangered, from the last-known wild population. In winter, 90 percent of their diet is sagebrush. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Pygmy rabbit
  • Dutch Henry Falls plunges over a western wall of Moses Coulee. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Dutch Henry Falls
  • A view to the south from the central Moses Coulee reveals the rugged, almost-alien landscape of the Three Devils Grade, an ancient scar of the spectacular Ice Age floods that formed Central Washington’s Channeled Scablands. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Moses Coulee
  • It’s not a scene from the old “Roadrunner” cartoon, but it’s close: A directional sign inside the Rimrock Meadows resort development. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Sign of the times
  • A Perseid Meteor makes its entrance into Earth's atmosphere, burning up for all to see from Table Mountain near Ellensburg. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Streaking across the sky
  • Windmills that dot the landscape above Vantage, west of the Columbia River and along I-90, stand starkly against a rainstorm as it blows through Central Washington. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
    Windmills in the storm
  • A giant boulder left from Ice Age floods still sits along Highway 172 near the town of Mansfield, a few miles from Steamboat Rock. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Glacial debris
  • In the Columbia River Gorge, Beacon Rock towers some 848 feet high and was sculpted in part by the Ice Age floods. The core of an ancient volcano, Beacon Rock helped early travelers mark the distance to the Pacific Ocean 150 miles away. Lewis and Clark camped at its base in 1805 and named it.<br />
(Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Beacon Rock
  • The Columbia River flows through Wallula Gap in southern Washington near Pasco. This view is from the Oregon side looking across the Columbia to the Washington shore. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Mighty Columbia
  • As many as 100 ancient floods roaring through the Northwest at the end of the last Ice Age carved much of the landscape we see today, including Palouse Falls. Here, the Palouse River drops 198 feet before it enters the Snake River in Eastern Washington. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Falls into the Palouse River
  • Steamboat Rock, which rises 525 feet in the flood chasm called the Grand Coulee, was once surrounded by the Ice Age Columbia River that ran here. The land is now Steamboat Rock State Park, where hikers can climb to the top and see the former flood and river course. The rock is bounded on three sides by Banks Lake, used to store irrigation water. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Steamboat Rock
  • As many as 100 ancient floods roaring through the Northwest at the end of the last Ice Age carved much of the landscape we see today, including Palouse Falls. Here, the Palouse River drops 198 feet before it enters the Snake River in Eastern Washington. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Palouse Falls
  • The sun sets on downtown Snoqualmie on a recent evening, on this antique wheel, old railroad tracks, and an old Methodist Church.
    Sunset over downtown Snoqualmie
  • A large boulder, or "erratic," in the middle of a wheat field along Highway 2 northwest of the Moses Coulee. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    A glacial erratic
  • Near Ellensburg, geese fly past the sunset colored clouds with only a sliver of the moon showing. (Jim Bates / The Seattle Times)
    Geese at moonset
  • The wheat fields of the Palouse turn golden in the late evening sun. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
    Palouse big sky wheat
  • Farmers in Whitman County grow other crops besides wheat, like canola and mustard seed. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Whitman County fields
  • Wildflowers bloom in the sand dunes near Moses Lake. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Moses Lake wildflowers
  • A photographic flash exposes plant-life along the Hanford Reach's shrub-steppe along the Columbia River. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Hanford Reach shrub-steppe
  • Barns and autumn skies are their own art forms in the Palouse. This is off Highway 195 just south of Uniontown. (Brian J. Cantwell / The Seattle Times)
    Barn under Palouse autumn sky
  • Viewing from Steptoe Butte, near Pullman, Washington, a grain elevator on the Palouse is surrounded by wheat fields. (Tome Reese / The Seattle Times)
    Palouse grain elevator in wheat fields
  • The Palouse offers solitude, which can translate into contentment or loneliness. A Palouse resident takes in the sunset from top of Steptoe Butte. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times)
    The Palouse from Steptoe Butte
  • Rays of the setting sun wrap around the slopes of wheat fields on the Palouse in Eastern Washington, viewed from Steptoe Butte.  (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times)
    Steptoe Butte Palouse sunset
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