The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

There are so many ways to appreciate the beauty of the wheat harvest. Each is a function of who you are-maybe a member of a farming family, perhaps a local person who respects what goes into the hard work of growing wheat, maybe an artist attempting to capture the beautiful landscape. Or maybe just a visitor stunned by the incredible views of fields and hills of our region at different times of the day. Maybe a bit of all those things.

Although it may never quite get the kind of admiration the fertile soil and rolling hills of wheat get, I also like the basalt underneath it all.

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