Roadside Yoga and Other Delights

why, hello Palouse....it's been a while.

what a trip it was! i now have my own "Murtaugh" list. if you don't understand the reference, you clearly don't watch HIMYM. let's just say, it is unfortunate that "Ordering a bagel after 2:00 am" is now on the list of things I'm "too old to do"....but then, nothing good happens after 2:00 am....

this is Kim.

she has her eye on the prize.

the challenge is great, but her will is greater.....she will summon all of the Ellen McIlvane energy that exists in the world and she will.....

....do yoga on a roadside post somewhere between Colfax, WA and Othello, WA.....

because she CAN.

and that rules.

The Magical Wishing Forest

DISCLAIMER: i'm not sure why these first couple of images uploaded a little blurry...it's weird.

oh well.
The Magical Wishing Forest.

The name says it all really.

it is the first place i have been truly inspired by in a very long time.

The first day we went there i wished for cloudless skies the next day because i wanted to bring my camera back the next day and my vision DID NOT include clouds.

my wish was granted.

it's amazing how these lush, green ferns and other plant life

turn to dense, scrubby thistles.

and the fiery shadows of those drawn to this place burn brightly......

even Darwin loved it here. she had a blast rolling around in the grass just as much as we did. she didn't even mind the fact that this place also serves as a pet cemetery....

well...maybe she was a little unnerved.

i can't wait to go back.

just a little verdant playground in the middle of where the Palouse meets the barren desert of the Snake River Valley.....

a miracle, really.