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Elk Creek
Headed out this weekend to Elk Creek Falls because I do love a good waterfall… Only to find the falls closed! Apparently they are putting in new toilets and picnic tables or something, so no visiting the falls this weekend. Rather than turn around and go home, we did check out some slightly less dramatic [… Read More]
Huckleberry Hunt
I’d only been here a few days when I first heard about them: Too-Good-to-Be-Missed huckleberry donuts for sale at the Moscow Farmer’s Market! Be sure to get there early! Early? There was my first problem. I have this long-established propensity toward sleeping in on Saturday mornings (which is when the market meets). So I flubbed [… Read More]
Abandoned Shack, Blue Sky
Friday dawned bright and clear, so we headed over to Moscow for breakfast; on the way back, I stopped to snap my favorite scene again. I’m happier with the light in these, but I think I have to branch out into some new angles. Of course, that’s going to mean navigating the wheat.
Appetite Pleasin’
These beans taste like a direction. I’m not sure what possessed me to buy ranch style beans, other than the cheerful packaging (final apostrophe included) and the cowboy sensibility. They were pretty good — we had them with fried chicken and on baked potatoes. They also seem like they would be good with fried eggs [… Read More]
Palousian Produce
This weekend I finally got up early enough on a Saturday to make the Moscow Farmer’s Market. Subconsciously, I guess a part of me expected it to be like the weekly street markets in Paris — fresh cuts of meat, an endless array of cheeses, shining fish bellies chilling on ice… Still, once I got [… Read More]
Ruins
This is basically my favorite thing I have seen since I got here. It’s like, in my dreams, I imagined Idaho would be full of romantically ruined shacks in a sea of endless wheat fields, but I figured I was being silly and sentimental. And then, the very first day, we drove my (now familiar) [… Read More]
Compositions
I had an impromptu photo shoot on my way home from class. If you google images of Moscow, ID, you see a lot of beautiful nature and cutesy college town stuff: cafes and bookstores, the stately brick buildings on campus. And yeah, that’s all here, but I love that there’s some grittier stuff thrown into [… Read More]
Rustic Landscape
View from the MFA kickoff party on Saturday. I’m taking a class this semester on Gothic literature in the 19th Century, and the professor was talking the other day about the picturesque as a Gothic trope. The word is nowadays in such common use that it feels banal, but it’s interesting to think that it [… Read More]
Border Crossing
I’ve lived most of my life in Providence, RI, where we used to joke that you couldn’t go to the movies without leaving the state. Rhode Island, after all, is the littlest state in the union, and so it is necessarily cozy with its neighbors. When I made the decision to move out west for [… Read More]