Indoor/Outdoor Living

Patio Weather

Hard to get anything done.

Under the Pergola

Blue skies, 80 degrees, soft east breeze...
Exquisite.

Camas Cove Cellars

Meet Dennis & Nancy Parr, owners of Camas Cove Cellars here in Moses Lake. Dennis and Nancy are, I believe, the original pioneers of Moses Lake viticulture, having established their small estate vineyard in 2004. They are also lovely and interesting people; we've had some great conversations sitting amidst the oak barrels late on a Saturday afternoon. Drop in or, if you're on the lake, boat in. They have one of the few dockside tasting rooms in the country. 911 Camas Place in Moses Lake, just south of I-90. www.camascovecellars.com

Wildflower Season at Cayuse Moses Lake

Phlox, larkspur and balsamroot, I do believe.

Open Space

Everyone always asks what we have planned for the open space. (In addition to the pastureland below the ridge, there are about 40 acres of dedicated open space up on the plateau.)

The Cayuse community is designed around this bloc of open space. When the community is built up, the open space will always preserve the sense of spaciousness, the "prairie community" feel that makes Cayuse seem like another world even though it's just minutes from town.

It may be an acquired taste, but the natural, undisturbed steppe is beautiful in its own way. The mixture of sagebrush, bunchgrass, rocks and (this time of year) wildflowers is a beautiful palette arranged more subtly than any landscape architect could mimic. I think it's a huge asset to have this natural buffer preserved in the midst of our community, and I'm sure folks will come to love it as much as I do.

Epic Night at St. Brigid's

What an amazing moment at St. Brigid's Taproom last night. A local Moses Lake band with the rather random name of "Free Beer Nuts" wandered in and lit the place up for a couple hours, rocking their own unique brand of what I might best describe as Irish punk. Guitar, mandolin, electric fiddle and three female vocalists, mostly backup singing (when have you heard tight 5-part harmony in a bar?) and then each stepping forward and showing off their respective lead vocal talents in turn.

The energy in the place was spontaneous, one of those moments when you watch the table conversations slowly die out and people begin to turn their heads and chairs to see who or what is making that great sound and ends with the whole place grooving and dancing and  grinning and clapping and raising arms in triumph and disbelief.

I'm so proud of Tom & Whitney and just happy and excited to see their place come into its own. Last night, there was no better place to be in the entire state of Washington than St. Brigid's Taproom on Broadway in little old Moses Lake.

Prairie Home

... on the ridge at Cayuse Moses Lake.

Bud Break

A nice stretch of weather and the vineyard is popping.