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Wildflowers on a Country Road in the Palouse Region of Washington (Original Post) Bo Zarts Jun 2023 OP
Nice work, my dear Bo! Beautiful countryside. Thank you! ♥ nt CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2023 #1
Gorgeous! chia Jun 2023 #2
Purrr-D! masmdu Jun 2023 #3
Really nice. badhair77 Jun 2023 #4
Just Gorgeous!!! Chicagogrl1 Jun 2023 #5
Lovely! TdeV Jun 2023 #6
Beautiful! nt crickets Jun 2023 #7
Notice how the hills of the Palouse have the shape of majestic waves. grantcart Jun 2023 #8
Interesting. I'd love to get up there and see this beautiful country Deuxcents Jun 2023 #12
Thanks! Bo Zarts Jun 2023 #18
It was first postulated in 1922 by Harlen Bretz grantcart Jun 2023 #26
Wow Traildogbob Jun 2023 #9
Wowsa dang irisblue Jun 2023 #10
Love this!😍 lucca18 Jun 2023 #11
wow!!! AllaN01Bear Jun 2023 #13
Oh! I want to be there! 💖 Hekate Jun 2023 #14
Outstanding! 3catwoman3 Jun 2023 #15
I loved living in the Palouse relayerbob Jun 2023 #16
Have you ever been to Steptoe Butte? grantcart Jun 2023 #27
So dreamy and peaceful. niyad Jun 2023 #17
That is a breathtaking picture wendyb-NC Jun 2023 #19
And the blue in the foreground is Bacehlor's Button, I think MadLinguist Jun 2023 #20
The Palouse is stunning. More so when in bloom. yonder Jun 2023 #21
Incredibly beautiful photo! yardwork Jun 2023 #22
I love this gopiscrap Jun 2023 #23
Beautiful. Looks like a painting. Qutzupalotl Jun 2023 #24
Go Cougs! We lived many years in Pullman. mommymarine2003 Jun 2023 #25
Is the purple lupine? wryter2000 Jun 2023 #28
Looks like chicory to me...more bluish. nt. druidity33 Jun 2023 #31
Lupine? 2naSalit Jun 2023 #35
not usually a roadside flower... druidity33 Jun 2023 #38
I could go eith that... 2naSalit Jun 2023 #40
Not luplne Botany Jun 2023 #34
Nice image Botany Jun 2023 #29
Immensely Inviting FrankTC Jun 2023 #30
Go Cougs! greblach Jun 2023 #32
Mr. Zarts - Was this taken yesterday, Sunday the 18th? We went for a Sunday drive south of..... RussellCattle Jun 2023 #33
My wife and I visited Palouse Falls a few years ago...beautiful area. chwaliszewski Jun 2023 #36
So very beautiful! N/t 💙💙💙💙 Hope22 Jun 2023 #37
Wonderful work! Tom Yossarian Joad Jun 2023 #39

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
8. Notice how the hills of the Palouse have the shape of majestic waves.
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 06:56 PM
Jun 2023

They were created by the destruction of a major ice damn more than 20,000 years ago. The mammoth reservoir behind the dam may have been the largest fresh water lake on earth, and it came crashing down creating two big lakes in N Idaho and as it slowed somewhat created the waves of the Palouse in E Washington which is also the home of Father's Day.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
26. It was first postulated in 1922 by Harlen Bretz
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 08:51 PM
Jun 2023

Ridiculed initially Bretz coined the term Channeled Scalabands which was argued for 40 years and then adopted.

It has been calculated that the floods created a flow rate of 10 times the flow of all current rivers combined

Originally Braetz called them "the Spokane Floods" they are now generally called "The Missoula Floods" and sometimes called the Braetz floods.

Wikipedia has a great article under "Missoula Floods".

wendyb-NC

(3,855 posts)
19. That is a breathtaking picture
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 08:11 PM
Jun 2023

The simple, quiet beauty of the fields, flowers, trees and dirt road, under a marbled sky. The colors are vibrant and soft and take you to a peaceful living place. Thank you for sharing your work.

MadLinguist

(844 posts)
20. And the blue in the foreground is Bacehlor's Button, I think
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 08:12 PM
Jun 2023

Such a great wildflower, Bachelor's Button is. Thanks for sharing this photo. It's truly uplifting

yonder

(10,005 posts)
21. The Palouse is stunning. More so when in bloom.
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 08:18 PM
Jun 2023

Visiting our kids at the U of I in Moscow was always a treat, especially when taking county roads.

yardwork

(64,622 posts)
22. Incredibly beautiful photo!
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 08:26 PM
Jun 2023

Do you happen to know which wildflowers they are? I'm on the east coast and don't recognize them.

Really spectacular photo.

gopiscrap

(24,203 posts)
23. I love this
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 08:33 PM
Jun 2023

I spent 4 years and two summers at WSU and ran around all over the Palouse. Also was a worship leader at a couple of tiny Lutheran Churches in the area

mommymarine2003

(296 posts)
25. Go Cougs! We lived many years in Pullman.
Sun Jun 18, 2023, 08:45 PM
Jun 2023

My husband and I are WSU graduates, and our 3 kids were all born in Pullman. The Palouse is a unique and beautiful area.

druidity33

(6,574 posts)
38. not usually a roadside flower...
Mon Jun 19, 2023, 05:15 PM
Jun 2023

chicory (or cornflower, if you like its common name) is a waste-ground plant. Lupine likes rich soil in fields. It's a delightful nitrogen fixer that's actually kinda hard to grow in shitty soil.



2naSalit

(93,098 posts)
40. I could go eith that...
Mon Jun 19, 2023, 06:13 PM
Jun 2023

Right now we have penstamon around here but I don't recall seeing it at that elevation. I was thinking chicory too but I wasn't sure I saw that around there but it's quite possible as chicory grows in a lot of places in Idaho.

FrankTC

(222 posts)
30. Immensely Inviting
Mon Jun 19, 2023, 10:05 AM
Jun 2023

It pulls you in, toward the rolling rhythm of the hills and clouds. Lovely. Peaceful and lively at the same time.

RussellCattle

(1,767 posts)
33. Mr. Zarts - Was this taken yesterday, Sunday the 18th? We went for a Sunday drive south of.....
Mon Jun 19, 2023, 12:53 PM
Jun 2023

....Spokane yesterday and the sky looked just like your photo. Love the Palouse. Came here in 1975 to go to school in Moscow, ID and never left.

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