{"id":48196,"date":"2021-06-04T02:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48196"},"modified":"2021-06-04T02:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:22:59","slug":"farmland-beauty-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48196","title":{"rendered":"Farmland beauty! Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By John Kanelis \/<\/strong> johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

WALLA WALLA, Wash.<\/strong> — The picture you see attached to this blog post is of a field of grain near Walla Walla.<\/p>\n

I snapped it while my wife and I waited for a flagger to signal us forward through highway construction. We waited a good while.<\/p>\n

The picture really does little justice to what we saw as we traveled through the region in the southeastern corner of Washington. I want to share with you here, though, an observation we both made almost at the same time.<\/p>\n

It is that I never thought cultivated farmland could be so damn gorgeous. We were amazed at the harmony among the plots of land. They were owned by various families. But so help me I was struck by how well-manicured all the farmland appeared to be.<\/p>\n

What’s more, it was as if all the landowners got together and decided how their land would look to ensure that it didn’t conflict with the tract of terra firma<\/em> next door.<\/p>\n

The grow a lot of wheat in this part of the nation. They also grow plenty of grapes for the nearly 100 wineries that have sprung up in the Palouse region. A friend we visited in the area calls it the “Napa Valley of the North.” It is transforming the region in front of everyone’s eyes.<\/p>\n

Did I ever think a patch of cultivated farmland would be worth sharing on this social media platform?<\/p>\n

No. Not ever. Not until we saw it up close.<\/p>\n\n

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By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com WALLA WALLA, Wash. — The picture you see attached to this blog post is of a field of grain near Walla Walla. I snapped it while my wife and I waited for a flagger to signal us forward through highway construction. We waited a good while. The picture really does … Continue reading Farmland beauty! Who knew?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9719,9718,9720],"class_list":["post-48196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-farmland","tag-napa-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48198,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48196\/revisions\/48198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}