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“Love, love, why must I be alone again?”

29 Friday Jun 2018

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Agriculture, bigotry, Heart Mountain, Japanese Internment Camps, University of Wyoming

Continued from Lovesick again Yry pressed on through the month of February, alternately mooning over the tragedy of love and …

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A great start to 2018

02 Tuesday Jan 2018

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Agriculture, Boise, BoiseFarmMarket, farmer's market, Janie Burns, lamb, local food, sheep, Treasure Valley

This gallery contains 12 photos.

On the first day of each new year Janie and Lori open the doors of Meadowlark Farm to friends and …

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Vines and wines in Idaho

25 Wednesday May 2016

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Agriculture, grapes, Idaho, Indian Creek Winery, Malbec, Tempranillo, wine

This gallery contains 11 photos.

Newcomers and visitors to Idaho are often surprised to discover a flourishing wine industry. In the late 70s Idaho had …

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Crops, rocks, sage & sky.

23 Thursday May 2013

Posted by rangewriter in Everything else, Travel & Adventure

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Agriculture, BLM, dirt, legends of place, May, mountains, Nevada, Oregon, Owyhee, Owyhee River, recreation, sagebrush, sky, Snake River, spring, whitewater., wine

My home is nestled into the convergence of several ecosystems. To the north, the landscape wrinkles into rather barren looking foothills; their beauty has grown on me in the way they capture the long angles of early morning and late evening sunlight; they hoard the last of the sun’s bruised rays in crevices that resemble junctions of the body—groin, knee, armpit—casting a sensuous glow over the gently sloping hills. The further you penetrate those hills, the greater their abs, which push them upward toward the sky, inviting a hairy growth of trees and shrubs that inevitably ends at their bald, snow-draped and toothy, granite pates. It is usually those shaggy mountains, filled with mystery and danger that lure me from the comfort of my home.

But during April and May, the high country is mostly buried in snow or snow sliding into mud. So I point my searching nose in the opposite direction where the verdant oasis of river bottom land reaches south toward the vast open range and high desert country of Nevada and a corner of southern Oregon.

Idyllic and hardscrabble farms blanket the fertile floodplain south and west of town. There are mom and pop farms, relics of a bygone day; there are obsequious gentleman farms, subsidized by corporate paychecks and hired help; and there are whole sections at a time of agri-business, capitalizing on seed crops, alfalfa,beans,corn, potatoes, mint, hops, dairy cows, and even grapes for the newest agricultural upstart, the Snake River Appellation.

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DSC_0149Horses abound, near town, they are sleek show horses and family pets. The deeper into the sage and the emptiness of BLM land you go, the more likely the prospect of stumbling into a herd of wild horses.

DSC_0159 DSC_0170Now, in the heart of Owyhee country, the land begins to lift once again into low slung protrusions of rock, remnants of long ago volcanic activity that left quickly cooled lava, which hardened into basalt. Fingers of the Owyhee River meander through the rock, carving deep canyons and gorges in some places, and carrying rich sediment into lush valleys in other places. Parts of the Owyhee River lure serious boaters during an ephemeral season of Class IV and V whitewater. By the end of July, the water fades to a mossy trickle.DSC_0173 DSC_0174Scattered hither and yon are spring blooms that would inspire van Gogh. These will be gone in a few short weeks.DSC_0205 DSC_0187The history of this God-forsaken region is rich with myth and folk-lore. The name, Owyhee, is said to have come from a trio of hapless Hawaiian trappers who went into the region in search of furs and were never seen again.

DSC_0210The roads, by now all eroded dirt, lead upward, to a bench from which taller, mineral-rich mountains beckon in the distance on one side and on the other side drops off to miles and miles of flat sage scrub. It’s all earth and sky. It’s enough to make a person plumb dizzy. DSC_0213

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