In Love with The Palouse
Owing in part to needs for our new website, cidermaker Rick and his wife Charlotte took a recent trip to Steptoe Butte, a quartzite mound overlooking the Palouse – an amazingly beautiful landscape just south of Spokane where (among vast wheat and legume farms) two of our partner orchards grow.
For those that live nearby, visits to the area are a must-do, taking in views as seasons change from luminescent green in spring, to lush, tawny brown in summer and fall, to whites and shadowy blues in winter. For locals and those living much further away, the story of the Palouse has its own merits, with a solid introduction available on Wikipedia.
But beyond the above urgings to visit and learn more about the land we’re so in love with at Liberty, this post is merely to show off a few of the snapshots taken by Rick and Charlotte. Here’s the Palouse in late spring, full of fresh life and vibrant colors. ❤️
