Here at The Times, we love the spring for all the reasons you all do, and for another reason as well: Springtime brings great photo opportunities in the Touchet Valley.

We like to keep this newspaper colorful, and that can be tough to do in February. But once the trees turn green and the the flowers are in bloom and people are out enjoying the weather, we put our cameras to work.

Events in Waitsburg and Dayton are great fun to photograph. In our last two issues, we've tried to convey the wide variety of colorful events happening around here: Waitsburg Celebration Days, the Dayton Days Parade,...