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Manor Lodge
Wow! The semester is fully in gear now, and grad school work is currently eating my soul. No time for anything thoughtful, but here, have some pictures of this motel sign down the street from me. I know it’s not terribly original, but I’m a huge fan of retro-cool motel signs. Not sure I’ve captured [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
how we party in the palouse
When I told people I was moving to Idaho, I heard a lot of spud jokes. “Bet you’re going to eat a lot of potatoes!” people would say, cackling merrily at their own wit. “Yup,” I’d say. I mean, I like potatoes. Who doesn’t like potatoes? Imagine my surprise, though, when I get out here [...]
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 [...]