Looking toward northwest of Spokane and the mountains above Spokane River.
Heading west to Creston. Leaving the pines of Spokane and into the rolling Palouse hills.
Native grasses
Reardan 15 miles west of Spokane.
Start of scablands - basalt rock formations with lakes and mostly native plants and animals.
Aspen grove. All these branches are part of one or a few aspen trees.
Native sage brush in the rocky land with wheat in the rich fine Palouse soil.
The mountains above the Spokane river.
Sage brush lands of the Scablands. The scablands were created about 12,000 years ago during the great floods that washed away the rich Palouse top soil and carved away some of the basalt rock that gushed out of Earth some 60 million years ago.
Basalt cliff and lake carved out by the great floods.
Creston's butte.
Heading east back to Spokane.
Slow moving low flying military plane.
One of the more beautiful willow lined creeks in the region. Most the the willows were poisoned when herbasides were introduced shortly after world war II.
Deer track.
Basalt formation exposed by the great floods.
Flowers that have gone wild from the abandoned farm house.
An ancient willow. Probably one of the bigger willows in the region.
Layer upon layer of basalt flowed out of the earth and is now the under lying foundation for much of the inland Pacific Northwest.
One of the many abandoned farmsteads scattered throughout the region.
The native flag iris.
Sage brush. There is a larger variety that gets up to 8 feet of so.
Basalt stone from the Rosa (Red) Formation
One of the many LBBs of the region - Little Brown Birds. Not to be confused with LBM. Little Brown Mushrooms.
Pillow style basalt formation. There are many styles of basalt formations. Crystal formations are a more common form near Spokane. When the hot liquid lava rock cooled various styles of basalt formations were created depending on the chemical characteristics and other factors.
The town of Creston between Davenport and Wilbur.
Creston Parade. Getting reading to rock and roll.
Note the Canadian and USA flag on the Conern Cafe. There is pleny of business from Canadians. Many places accept Canadian dollars at par with USA dollars - a good bargin for Candian money.
Note the Canadian flag along with the USA flag. There has always been plenty of traffic between the northern parts of the USA and southern parts of Canada just like the between the southern parts of the USA and northern Mexico. Lots of families and friends and vactioneers go back and forth on a regular basis depending on the exchange rate.