November 03, 2013

Iller Conservation Area - Spokane near Dishman Hills

Kathy Meader

Diwali, 1st Sunday of Advent, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentines Day,Mardi Gras/Fat Friday, Lent, Easter, St Patricks Day....are you seeing a trend towards WARMER? Until then we have a few odds and ends of snow. Sometimes it even gets downright warm on a winters day. It happens. And even on cool fall days, our photographer journalist Kathy Meader caught this wonderful image above. It is out of the way from where folks usually go although just downhill between the Palouse and 57th Street is an old old home that still using a mill for pumping water and lights kerosene lamps when it gets dark. It belonged to my great cousin Carl Walton. The Waltons owned much land on the South Hill and upper Palouse. They moseyed over from the Wenatchee fruit growing areas where they did just that..grew fruits... and the Waltons didn't just appear in Wenactchee. The came up from Sherman County Oregon where my great great aunt lived and died.. of course she was married and a Johnson by the time she passed:

Mr Shannon:
Your query on the Sherman Co, ORE GenWeb page ask about Elvira Johnson.
There is a Elvira Johnson buried in the Wasco Methodist Cemetery at Wasco Ore, but the head stone dates are 10 Dec 1813 to 29 Sep 1891 and indications are she was born in Kentucky.
HOWEVER, a lady has been going through old Sherman Co newspapers and recording death information. The 14 September 1906 issue of THE SHERMAN CO OBSERVER contains:
"Mrs Nina Hennagin came up Sunday to be at the bedside of Mrs Johnson,whose death, quite sudden, occurred on the 2d, at the home of her son,Wilbur Regester, aged 66 years. The remains were taken to Hood River for interment."
The 7 September 1906 issue of the GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL had the following item:
"Mrs. Johnson, who lived in the vicinity of Kent, died on Sunday,September 2nd, 1906. She was taken and died very suddenly. The remains were taken to Hood River on Mondays train and the funeral was held Tuesday."

An Oregon highway engineer who blew up a dead beached whale with a half-ton of dynamite in 1970 has died at the age of 84.

George Thomas Thornton gained national attention over the exploding whale, and the act endured for decades thanks to a video that shows giant pieces of whale carcass splattering across the beach and spectators.

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/technology/article/Oregon-man-behind-decision-to-blow-up-whale-dies-4944082.php

The Genius of Rick Price

Counsel for Missoula public water effort involved in Spokane scandal

The lead attorney on Mayor John Engen’s negotiating team for public water was a key figure in a deal that led to a multimillion dollar federal securities fraud case in Spokane more than a decade ago.
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WWII Spitfire Pilot

Just watch the expression on his face as he watches himself. We owe a BIG thank you to men like him.

18 years old,all alone, behind enemy lines, no guns, no escort.....and he gladly did it. They just don't make them like that anymore... It was truly the greatest generation...........We owe them so much..........
Click the link below American Spitfire Pilot in WWII

Its a little rough taking pictures with crutches..I think I need a blind. After 9 years of coming to the biking trail head with not a problem, I picked up a Vietnamese lady who lives next door. She rattled off where I could par and where I couldn't and generally went on half not n English. Good grief. Its fun taking pictures, now I fight the Viets for a second time, the bees which are rough, especially around trial heads. Oh I have a new definition in how to tell a pro photographer from a person with a pricey camera in disguise. A pro prints in 13x19" with wide neutral colors and only hangs them like a decorator....a few, not one after another.

Not a Pro on left -- Pro on the right Right is Murder City Photographers