OCTOBER 1, CDP THEME DAY: SENSUAL

I Love These Hills

Before I moved to eastern Washington state from the Puget Sound area (and from Michigan before that), I thought the eastern half of the Evergreen State was a wasteland. Dry, rocky and not particularly beautiful compared to the majestic vistas around Seattle of the Cascade Range with snow-capped Mt. Rainier to the east and the Olympic Mountains to the west. Still, on a sunny day, nothing is more beautiful.

But after a move to Walla Walla in the late 1980s, I soon came to realize that less can indeed be more. In particular, the hills that stretch from the Washington-Oregon border in the south all the way to Spokane in the north. This area is known as the Palouse Hills, and it is simply stunning and very sensual. 

Regardless of the season, these gently rolling hills are like a harem of Rubenesque women with curves and crevices that collect the snow in winter, and from which sprout green shoots of wheat in the late winter and early spring, only to be covered in a blanket of golden corduroy after harvest. Plow lines and combine trails accentuate the curves and draw the eye through the vast landscape much like a contour map. 

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