It’s an event that screams for nicknames. Lydia “Whistlin’ Lyd” Hutchinson you’ll meet in a moment. Right now, let’s talk about Tud. “Tud” is

We sat on rocks scattered about the mountaintop, watching the sun set in the cooling air. Below in the valley filling with dark like

The dark form of a lone hiker delicately steps across a narrow bridge, part of a rounded opening through limestone wall, the result of

That some folks in Idaho are passionate about potatoes, you expect. That this most famous of Idaho products is celebrated in small-town Shelley, population

A pair of dark eyes slides above the water revealing the scaly green head of an alligator. Just a few feet away, another creepily

The landscape is sere, windblown, already in early May. Bare tree trunks, limbs broken, lay strewn like tumbleweeds. What trees live here are also