The Palouse

I just returned from 5 nights in Washington State for a photography workshop. We travelled in an area called The Palouse which is in Eastern Washington near the Idaho state line. It’s an area of beautiful green rolling hills and is called The Breadbasket of American because it is the largest producer of wheat.

I have hundreds of photos through sort through and will post more later. But I will post one of the first pictures I took using my iphone. It was a great way to start the workshop. One very cool thing I learned about double rainbows is the 2nd rainbow is inverted. Notice it doesn’t go red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet but is the opposite.

8th Grade DC Spring Break

Wow what a week! A rite of passage for 8th graders across the country. Our trip was coordinated by a teacher at Quinn’s school but was managed by a company called World Strides. I wasn’t 100% sure we wanted to go but Don still remembered his 8th grade DC trip and encouraged us to do it…so off we went.

We met at the school on Thursday at 5:15 pm to catch the bus to LAX. We had a red eye to DC and the kids were encouraged to get some sleep but it was a 4 hour flight with very little sleep. Upon arrival at DC the kids were excited and tired.

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