Riding up Ski Hill Road toward Targhee last week. Light snow on the Tetons now and more to come this coming week! #bestofthegemstate #targhee #altawyoming #tetonvalleyidaho #skihillroad cynthia October 25, 2024 Uncategorized You Might Also Like Historic Pillsbury Grain Elevator, between Felt and Ashton, Idaho. Like distant ships on the horizon, grain elevators in the American West appear in the wide-open landscape long before reaching them. Happening upon these magnificent structures, one thinks about the engineering, the transport of materials, the labor and perseverance that it must have taken to construct them. Frank Gohlke, master of the Texas landscape, expressed his feelings about these extraordinary buildings with these few sentences: “I was frustrated by the discrepancy between the ordinariness of the facts surrounding the grain elevators and the intensity of my emotional responses to the objects themselves. …. The dignity of grain elevators, the precision, intelligence and grace of their formal language, their majestic presence within the landscape all seem to confirm the faith that, given the right circumstances, we will make visible the best that is within us”. #orcuttphotography #bestofthegemstate #historicidahograinelevators #orcuttphotography.com February 15, 2022 Cottonwoods along the edge of the Grand Teton Canal catch late day light in Teton Valley, Idaho. #cottonwoodtrees #tetonvalleyidaho #driggsidaho #atorcuttphotography #springtimeidaho June 7, 2023 Sunsets in Teton Valley, Idaho are extraordinary! This one with bands of color was a great background for the silhouetted trees. #tetonvallyidaho #driggsidaho #bestofthegemstate #orcuttphotography #sunsettetonvalley January 26, 2022
Historic Pillsbury Grain Elevator, between Felt and Ashton, Idaho. Like distant ships on the horizon, grain elevators in the American West appear in the wide-open landscape long before reaching them. Happening upon these magnificent structures, one thinks about the engineering, the transport of materials, the labor and perseverance that it must have taken to construct them. Frank Gohlke, master of the Texas landscape, expressed his feelings about these extraordinary buildings with these few sentences: “I was frustrated by the discrepancy between the ordinariness of the facts surrounding the grain elevators and the intensity of my emotional responses to the objects themselves. …. The dignity of grain elevators, the precision, intelligence and grace of their formal language, their majestic presence within the landscape all seem to confirm the faith that, given the right circumstances, we will make visible the best that is within us”. #orcuttphotography #bestofthegemstate #historicidahograinelevators #orcuttphotography.com February 15, 2022
Cottonwoods along the edge of the Grand Teton Canal catch late day light in Teton Valley, Idaho. #cottonwoodtrees #tetonvalleyidaho #driggsidaho #atorcuttphotography #springtimeidaho June 7, 2023
Sunsets in Teton Valley, Idaho are extraordinary! This one with bands of color was a great background for the silhouetted trees. #tetonvallyidaho #driggsidaho #bestofthegemstate #orcuttphotography #sunsettetonvalley January 26, 2022
