It is already the middle of December and the spectacular Blue Mountains are covered in crisp white snow. Down here in the wonderful Walla Walla River basin folks are preparing to meet the Christmas season and spend time with family and friends. The wildlife of this historic river basin are either in hibernation or out…
October is now history and we have all moved onto November. It is said that when one door closes another opens and so it is here in the spectacular Walla Walla Valley. The door is shutting on the autumn season, fall songbird migration, the last of the wild blooming flowers and warm sunny days and…
It’s October here in the spectacular Walla Walla Valley. What a great time to visit this outstanding place. With September gone and October almost over the door is slightly open to winter. It is the arrival of shorter, cooler days and longer nights that has clued all native broad leaf shrubs and trees that it…
September is here and our summer is gone in a cloud of dust and smoke. It was one warm summer full of great events in the natural world. Some of these outstanding happenings were the eye popping wild flower bloom early in the summer, large numbers of cloud free days and the really toasty warm…
July melted into a warm, hazy, smoky mist and was gone. August is suddenly here in the white hot glare of the summer sun. Just east of Walla Walla an event occurred that will force change. There was a 6000+ acre fire that was human caused. Fire during dry hot weather conditions has happened for…
So here we are, fast slipping into summer; the heat is up, the crops are ripe and the wheat is already turning to gold. What a wonderful time to see what is going on in this outstanding valley. In the natural world many amazing events are underway. The first is that fall shorebird migration is…
May has come to the Walla Walla Valley and draped a blanket of bright green punctuated with hundreds of thousands of native flowers that are scarlet, sapphire, royal purple and saffron over the valley. One native plant currently in bloom is the sapphire blue flax.This spectacular native flower blooms north of town in the bunchgrass…
What a wonderful spring season it is in Walla Walla County. The above normal air temps in March allowed for early emergence of many wild flowers, insects/pollinators and the arrival of many migrant birds. It was so warm that many wild, native plants are up to ten days ahead of what is normal for this…
By Kirsten Telander Ah, the affirmation of Spring in the Walla Walla Valley. The town collectively feels the promise of a new season: the wheat and alfalfa provide for miles of green, winemakers visualize bud-break and chefs anticipate the local farms’ bounty. People continue to flock to our beloved, hip little hamlet for the wine,…
Here in beautiful Walla Walla County, where islands of native vegetation still survive and wildlife roams, you have a chance to catch a glimpse of three outstandingly mesmerizing wild flowers that bloom in the middle of March and then are gone until next spring. Everything in the natural world lives by a schedule that ensures…