by Rich Leighton | Oct 21, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Observations, Photography, Travel, Washington
A few days ago I was driving eastward across the state of Washington across the barren sagebrush desert with my family when one of my boys needed to use the restroom. We stopped just east of Ellensburg at the Ryegrass Safety Rest Area in Kittitas County, and as...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 5, 2014 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us – like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness – that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 5, 2014 | Cactus, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
Recently I made yet another foray into the deserts of my increasingly favorite area of the Pacific Northwest, the Oak Creek Wildlife Area in Yakima County, Washington. As I’ve stated in other posts across the years, I am a big fan of cacti – and especially...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 22, 2014 | Food, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
Today’s post is brought to you by my stomach. Since I moved to the Pacific Northwest three years ago, I’ve sorely missed my well-developed knowledge and skills of natural foraging any time I was out in the woods or Everglades of my native Florida. In the...
by Rich Leighton | May 6, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
Not a title I’d ever believed in a millions years that I would write, but I couldn’t think of a better one. A week or so ago I was passing through Selah, WA and stopped at a rest area on Interstate 82 just outside of Yakima and within the circle formed by...
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