Summer Hills - print gifts ink on a birch wood

ink on a birch wood canvas

framing the blooms and allowing their pigments to dance and play across the scene

Summer on the Palouse has slipped away

Her colors are from the 1970s and is aptly named

Summer Hills - print gifts ink on a birch woodSummer on the Palouse Hills happens swiftly. Green waves of grain blow in the cool early summer wind yearning for heat. Then just like that the sun comes and turns the hills a golden glow of yellow, copper and orange. The rustle of the grain heads in the wind sounds like a hushed rattlesnake. The earth is warm and the soil feels like powder sugar and clouds the air with harvest. The patterns from hungry machines carve intricate designs in the hills.