Artistic downtown shot number five

million and twelve

Science! Latah formation

Mixed up with flood basalts, it's old lake beds.

Millions of years old, too.

They mingle in many different ways.

Some dramatically.

You can find bits of trees in it here and there.

Fossils are literally falling out of the ground.

Literally.

I have no idea what this is, but it looks interesting.

This isn't apparently fossilized even after all these years.

It brings that time very close.

It's exhaustin'

Bein' a beagle

A sunset with no smoke in it

How novel.

Frutta di Mare

I am a sea-shell flung
Up from the ancient sea.
Now I lie here, among
The roots of a tamarisk tree;
No one listens to me.

Geoffrey Scott

Last year's burn

Yale

Ducks at sunset

Cheney-Spokane Rd

Bonus: elk

Three male elk crossed the road in front of us beside Latah Creek at noon on a Saturday.
Omigod

Omigodomigod

I have only seen tule elk before this, which are pretty small. 

These are big elk. The only species of deer in North America that rivals it for size is the moose.

It's the third largest member of the deer family in the world.

Nick did keep telling me that I 'd see elk.