store front washtucna

Grain Elevators just before Palouse Falls

Kroll machine and supply

we had to stop in small town america to get some sort of alternative milk - we had coffee but now we were looking for coconut milk or something without gluten or dairy in a very middle of the road food shop - was there any hope?
well i went inside and looked desperate to drink a non black coffee.
and surprise despite looking like a supermarket filled with just kraft products- i find hemp milk.
Hallejullah.
we have coffee . meanwhile tim photographs Kroll for me- too scared himself to enter a very "you not from round here" kinda store. I am the consumer fodder feeling like a fish out of water-
do they know i am not from round here?
i am sure i am wearing or looking odd as usually i am.
cant remember any oddness though so maybe it was just internalization of oddness.

my favorite abandoned location of 2012...

and the winnner is  This hot little left behind motel/cafe/shop/gas station near steamboat rock.
i have seen alot this year-
on all fronts dramatic natural beauty and fantastic human ruins.
this place was a treat and remains a treat for me to finish working on files produced that warm summers day.
and although that being sneeky can be exciting  sometimes the act of being sneaky detracts from potential images ...
not that it's all about the iamges produced-
its the experience for me of feeling the sensation of a left behind space-
to touch it gently and imagine that through osmosis you can take on it's history- or at least i do.
drive in motel gas station - i love you just the way you are.
more images from this spot can be seen here

Barns between spokane and Pullman

More monoliths of Grain Pine City , WA

funny a celiac should end up in wheatland washington...
photographing grain elevators none the less- i did have panic at times seeing winds pick up across the fields and sweeping particulate probably highly wheaty.
the dust devils....
feel asleep watching the "dust bowl" last night on pbs - whitey really doesn't seem to live in harmony with the earth on so many levels..
we need a biodynamic healing revolution ?
or evolution?

whitman country growers, grain elevators

through a heart placed in the Bethel Cemetery grain elevators of whitman county.
these grain elevators really are blights on the undulations  of the Palouse. but their boxy futuristic and historicness blends has a weird undefined time frame. both futuristic and historic at the same time.

i guess it looks like a prison for grain.
This was the day we traveled from grand coulee through palouse via steptoe butte finishing in spokane.
what a day! and many shots taken along the way.

The some what quiet town of Washtucna

Many a town we did pass on the way from Pullman to Palouse Falls and then onto Ellensburg for one final night before home again.
But this one was at the turn off for the Falls and we had to enter and exit through it so i couldnt ignore it's splendor and on the way out everyone was very patient with me as i hopped from one empty building to the next.
Welcome to Washtucna, population 208.
the Tavern was still open and seemed hopping for a friday afternoon.

if i were rich i would buy the whole town and run it myself- from banker to barista.

the road out of Washtucna