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Original Moore Park homestead about 10 km west of Merriwagga, NSW. The oldest part t was built in 1883 and is of drop log consruction
This is a view of the beautiful Palouse hills from Kamiak Butte Primitive Trail as the sun was going down. Palouse Region, Washington State.
** I couldn’t post this in good conscience without sharing credit with my husband. Nobody really makes the point that you have to be in good shape to be a landscape photographer! Well, not having worked out at the gym in 3+ months due to COVID-19 closure really took its toll on this hike. The sun went down rather fast on this unfamiliar trail and we had no flashlight—the headlamp was not in the backpack and left my iPhone in the car at the trailhead. So we were booking it back to the car in very little light on this primitive trail. No time to rest because we didn’t want to get stuck in the dark woods on this 4 mile hike. For a couple miles, my husband had the backpack, two cameras, 100-400 lens, 70-200 lens and tripod and I still couldn’t keep up with him. No doubt that without him, I could have never taken this shot —or at least lived to post it. lol Now you have . . . The rest of the story.😊
I never grow tired of visiting the Palouse Region of Eastern Washington. The wide open spaces of cloudy blue skies and rolling hills of lush green crops cheerfully greet you as you drive along. I also never cease to be amazed that these fervent green mounds are dryland farmed in the very arid side of the state. That is, they are grown without the aid of irrigation. While this would be considered a beautiful day to most passing by, the farmers would prefer to see the rain. This year has been one of the driest years in the last 40 years. HFF!
UPDATE: Thanks to the Flickr community for including this in Explore. That makes 10 photos in Explore over the last two weeks which is just crazy and totally unexpected.
Part of the back story is that I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma 4 months ago and have had limited opportunities to get out and take pictures. In recent weeks I've resorted to scanning my library for unedited and overlooked images which is what I've mostly been uploading lately.
This past week I was in the hospital getting chemo and every day I woke up to the joyous surprise that another image had been included in Explore. While I limped around with my IV pole and did my best not to throw up I scanned the wave of encouraging words that comes with being on Explore and it felt like I had cheering section from around the world rooting me on and lifting me up.
Your kinds words and generosity have been a wonderful gift. Thank you.
I guess I also need to do a more thorough job of reviewing my images so I don't miss out on some hidden gems. :)
UPDATE: Thanks Flickr for including this in Explore.
I found this while looking through old photos from last Spring. I've made dozens of trips out to Steptoe and I learn a little more each time. Some of the tricks I've learned are: use a Polarizing Filter to cut the haze, go longish on the focal length - 100mm to 200mm seems to be the sweet spot, go in May or June, and hit that 15 minutes of golden sun either rising or setting. I seem to have better luck with the sunrise than sunset, probably because there is less dust in the air.I found this while looking through old photos from last Spring.
The house in Eastern Montana where my mom was born and raised; abandoned since the late 40's. Also a few of the remaining trees, out of the 900 that my grandfather planted and kept watered to satisfy the homesteading requirements.
The closest town to the homestead where my mom grew up, she attended high school here while living with her grandparents who lived closer to town.
Once a booming grain producing area with four grain elevators, one for each of four grain companies; today it has mostly reverted back to open grazing. While my mom remembers the lonely sound of the train whistle as it came through town past the elevators, I could not find any trace of the train tracks.
I don't think I've ever posted a photo of a crop / farmfield before, but I pass this location often when birding and was captured by the view of the tractor amongst the aloe. ;-)
Getting back to my Montana homestead series, located a few miles from my mom's house and quite near the grade school they attended, Battle Butte stands out starkly on the horizon. Supposedly arrowheads can be found there; unfortunately it also has a reputation for having a bad case of rattlesnakes.
A sweeping view over the undulating farmland of Washington's Palouse region, captured from the heights of Steptoe Butte. Golden and chestnut-toned fields stretch to the horizon, textured with harvest lines and framed by soft blue haze. A lone RV adds a human touch to the vast agricultural landscape. This photograph was created by Duncan Rawlinson.
Another from the homestead in Montana where my mom was born and raised. There are two of these pumps left, one near the house and this one near where the barn once stood. While they attempted to farm this land, it has since reverted back to open range land for which it is much better suited.
If you look closely you can see a ravine curving off into the distance. I know it sounds cliche, but they usually walked two miles to school following that ravine, which they refer to as a coulie. If you follow it for about a mile, and search closely, you will find a rock overhang where my mom and her brothers and sisters and some others carved their initials many years ago.
Photograph of farmer Darryl Crowley standing in a crop of yellow peas. Crowley's farm is located near Poplar, MT. Crowley utilizes no-till and alternative crop techniques on his farm. July 17, 2012.
NRCS Soil Conservationist Garrett Duyck (left), and David Brewer examine a soil sample on the Emerson Dell farm near The Dalles, Oregon. Brewer focuses on improving soil health to increase water infiltration and retention on his farm.
On my roadtrip to Iowa last week I once again stopped by the homestead in Eastern Montana where my mom was born and raised. The fenceline marks the western edge of their property. The wooden contraption in the foreground is what remains of some sort of road grader which my grandfather used to maintain gravel roads for the county.
After nearly 4000 miles in 6 days it is good to be back home. The trip home was 28 hours straight driving, complete with wind, tornadoes, hailstorms, thunder and lightning storms, and even a bit of snow. Now for wedding week....
A combine, harvesting winter wheat on a farm in Beach, ND. The combine leaves stubble, which is helpful in maintaining soil moisture and improving soil health.
Image No: 631-7-1712-1921
Title: Irrigation farming in sunny Alberta.
Date: 1921
Remarks: The Canadian Pacific Railway had a great deal of money invested in its irrigation scheme in southern Alberta and this pamphlet extols the advantages of an irrigated farm, which was more expensive to buy initially, over fertile but non-irrigated land.
Subject(s): Emigration and immigration / Immigration literature / Irrigation - Canals and flumes
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Mike Zook on his farm near Beach, ND. Zook implements conservation tilling, crop residue management and the use of alternitive crops on his farmland. July 18, 2012.
Lots of folks tried dry land farming... Plenty lost their hard-earned homesteads when the weather refused to co-operate.
A combine, harvesting winter wheat on a farm in Beach, ND. The combine leaves stubble, which is helpful in maintaining soil moisture and improving soil health.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Driving around Colorado - Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Friday, 20 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.
The Great or Classic Pueblo Period - 800 years ago.
AD 1100 to 1300 saw the climax of Pueblo development in the Mesa Verde area. During this period the people moved from small, compact villages on the mesa tops to alcoves where they built cliff dwellings, like Spruce Tree House, shown here on an autumn day in the late 1200's. The natural alcoves were an ideal place to build homes. Walls were built of shaped sandstone blocks laid in mud mortar and roofs were constructed of poles, bark, and mud. Houses were grouped around open courtyards where most daily activities probably took place. Circular rooms beneathe the courtyards, resembling kivas of Pueblo villages of today, may have been used for ceremonial or social functions. The Ancestral Puebloan people continued to farm on the mesa tops using dryland farming techniques. In good years, quantities of produce were stored for use in years of crop failure. Water was carried from a spring in the head of the canyon, 100 yards north of the alcove. Clubs, snares, and the bow and arrow were used for hunting, stone wood, and bone tools including awes, knives, drills, and hammerstones were vital to the survival of the people. Two types of pottery were made, corrugated ware for cooking and storage, and decorated black-on-white vessels for other purposes. Food was boiled in jars, baked or fired on flat stone griddles, or roasted in ashes or coals. Cotton was traded into the area from southern Arizona and used to make excellently woven cotton cloth. Turquoise, ocean shells, salt, and argillite, a red stone that looks like pipestone, were traded from the Southwest and the Pacific coast. Despite the advances made by the Pueblo people, changes in architecture and living styles point to problems by the late 1200's. Although a severe 24 year drought began in AD 1276, the people had survived water shortages in the past. Depletion of the soil, timber resources, and game animals took a toll. The people left Mesa Verde by 1300 AD, moving south and joining other Pueblo people in Arizona and New Mexico.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Driving around Colorado - Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Friday, 20 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.
The Great or Classic Pueblo Period - 800 years ago.
AD 1100 to 1300 saw the climax of Pueblo development in the Mesa Verde area. During this period the people moved from small, compact villages on the mesa tops to alcoves where they built cliff dwellings, like Spruce Tree House, shown here on an autumn day in the late 1200's. The natural alcoves were an ideal place to build homes. Walls were built of shaped sandstone blocks laid in mud mortar and roofs were constructed of poles, bark, and mud. Houses were grouped around open courtyards where most daily activities probably took place. Circular rooms beneathe the courtyards, resembling kivas of Pueblo villages of today, may have been used for ceremonial or social functions. The Ancestral Puebloan people continued to farm on the mesa tops using dryland farming techniques. In good years, quantities of produce were stored for use in years of crop failure. Water was carried from a spring in the head of the canyon, 100 yards north of the alcove. Clubs, snares, and the bow and arrow were used for hunting, stone wood, and bone tools including awes, knives, drills, and hammerstones were vital to the survival of the people. Two types of pottery were made, corrugated ware for cooking and storage, and decorated black-on-white vessels for other purposes. Food was boiled in jars, baked or fired on flat stone griddles, or roasted in ashes or coals. Cotton was traded into the area from southern Arizona and used to make excellently woven cotton cloth. Turquoise, ocean shells, salt, and argillite, a red stone that looks like pipestone, were traded from the Southwest and the Pacific coast. Despite the advances made by the Pueblo people, changes in architecture and living styles point to problems by the late 1200's. Although a severe 24 year drought began in AD 1276, the people had survived water shortages in the past. Depletion of the soil, timber resources, and game animals took a toll. The people left Mesa Verde by 1300 AD, moving south and joining other Pueblo people in Arizona and New Mexico.
A combine, harvesting winter wheat on a farm in Beach, ND. The combine leaves stubble, which is helpful in maintaining soil moisture and improving soil health.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Driving around Colorado - Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Friday, 20 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.
The Great or Classic Pueblo Period - 800 years ago.
AD 1100 to 1300 saw the climax of Pueblo development in the Mesa Verde area. During this period the people moved from small, compact villages on the mesa tops to alcoves where they built cliff dwellings, like Spruce Tree House, shown here on an autumn day in the late 1200's. The natural alcoves were an ideal place to build homes. Walls were built of shaped sandstone blocks laid in mud mortar and roofs were constructed of poles, bark, and mud. Houses were grouped around open courtyards where most daily activities probably took place. Circular rooms beneathe the courtyards, resembling kivas of Pueblo villages of today, may have been used for ceremonial or social functions. The Ancestral Puebloan people continued to farm on the mesa tops using dryland farming techniques. In good years, quantities of produce were stored for use in years of crop failure. Water was carried from a spring in the head of the canyon, 100 yards north of the alcove. Clubs, snares, and the bow and arrow were used for hunting, stone wood, and bone tools including awes, knives, drills, and hammerstones were vital to the survival of the people. Two types of pottery were made, corrugated ware for cooking and storage, and decorated black-on-white vessels for other purposes. Food was boiled in jars, baked or fired on flat stone griddles, or roasted in ashes or coals. Cotton was traded into the area from southern Arizona and used to make excellently woven cotton cloth. Turquoise, ocean shells, salt, and argillite, a red stone that looks like pipestone, were traded from the Southwest and the Pacific coast. Despite the advances made by the Pueblo people, changes in architecture and living styles point to problems by the late 1200's. Although a severe 24 year drought began in AD 1276, the people had survived water shortages in the past. Depletion of the soil, timber resources, and game animals took a toll. The people left Mesa Verde by 1300 AD, moving south and joining other Pueblo people in Arizona and New Mexico.
A combine, harvesting winter wheat on a farm in Beach, ND. The combine leaves stubble, which is helpful in maintaining soil moisture and improving soil health.
Photograph of farmer Darryl Crowley standing in a crop of yellow peas. Crowley's farm is located near Poplar, MT. Crowley utilizes no-till and alternative crop techniques on his farm. July 17, 2012.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Driving around Colorado - Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Friday, 20 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.
The Great or Classic Pueblo Period - 800 years ago.
AD 1100 to 1300 saw the climax of Pueblo development in the Mesa Verde area. During this period the people moved from small, compact villages on the mesa tops to alcoves where they built cliff dwellings, like Spruce Tree House, shown here on an autumn day in the late 1200's. The natural alcoves were an ideal place to build homes. Walls were built of shaped sandstone blocks laid in mud mortar and roofs were constructed of poles, bark, and mud. Houses were grouped around open courtyards where most daily activities probably took place. Circular rooms beneathe the courtyards, resembling kivas of Pueblo villages of today, may have been used for ceremonial or social functions. The Ancestral Puebloan people continued to farm on the mesa tops using dryland farming techniques. In good years, quantities of produce were stored for use in years of crop failure. Water was carried from a spring in the head of the canyon, 100 yards north of the alcove. Clubs, snares, and the bow and arrow were used for hunting, stone wood, and bone tools including awes, knives, drills, and hammerstones were vital to the survival of the people. Two types of pottery were made, corrugated ware for cooking and storage, and decorated black-on-white vessels for other purposes. Food was boiled in jars, baked or fired on flat stone griddles, or roasted in ashes or coals. Cotton was traded into the area from southern Arizona and used to make excellently woven cotton cloth. Turquoise, ocean shells, salt, and argillite, a red stone that looks like pipestone, were traded from the Southwest and the Pacific coast. Despite the advances made by the Pueblo people, changes in architecture and living styles point to problems by the late 1200's. Although a severe 24 year drought began in AD 1276, the people had survived water shortages in the past. Depletion of the soil, timber resources, and game animals took a toll. The people left Mesa Verde by 1300 AD, moving south and joining other Pueblo people in Arizona and New Mexico.
Photograph of farmer Darryl Crowley standing in a crop of yellow peas. Crowley's farm is located near Poplar, MT. Crowley utilizes no-till and alternative crop techniques on his farm. July 17, 2012.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Driving around Colorado - Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Friday, 20 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.
The Great or Classic Pueblo Period - 800 years ago.
AD 1100 to 1300 saw the climax of Pueblo development in the Mesa Verde area. During this period the people moved from small, compact villages on the mesa tops to alcoves where they built cliff dwellings, like Spruce Tree House, shown here on an autumn day in the late 1200's. The natural alcoves were an ideal place to build homes. Walls were built of shaped sandstone blocks laid in mud mortar and roofs were constructed of poles, bark, and mud. Houses were grouped around open courtyards where most daily activities probably took place. Circular rooms beneathe the courtyards, resembling kivas of Pueblo villages of today, may have been used for ceremonial or social functions. The Ancestral Puebloan people continued to farm on the mesa tops using dryland farming techniques. In good years, quantities of produce were stored for use in years of crop failure. Water was carried from a spring in the head of the canyon, 100 yards north of the alcove. Clubs, snares, and the bow and arrow were used for hunting, stone wood, and bone tools including awes, knives, drills, and hammerstones were vital to the survival of the people. Two types of pottery were made, corrugated ware for cooking and storage, and decorated black-on-white vessels for other purposes. Food was boiled in jars, baked or fired on flat stone griddles, or roasted in ashes or coals. Cotton was traded into the area from southern Arizona and used to make excellently woven cotton cloth. Turquoise, ocean shells, salt, and argillite, a red stone that looks like pipestone, were traded from the Southwest and the Pacific coast. Despite the advances made by the Pueblo people, changes in architecture and living styles point to problems by the late 1200's. Although a severe 24 year drought began in AD 1276, the people had survived water shortages in the past. Depletion of the soil, timber resources, and game animals took a toll. The people left Mesa Verde by 1300 AD, moving south and joining other Pueblo people in Arizona and New Mexico.