There is something mystical about the views from Steptoe Butte, a thimble-shaped hill that juts about a thousand feet in the midst of the undulating hills of the Palouse. There is a 360° view of the Palouse from the top of Steptoe that encompasses the rolling hills covered in low-growing crops. Although there was rain off and on during the first couple of days of our visit, the ground dried quickly and by the fourth day, the skies were clear, the sun was bright, and the fields dried quickly. Dust, an ever-present phenomenon in the Palouse when the weather is dry, is visible in cloudy trails behind John Deere tractors that plow the fields or as in this instance, when the breezes sweep across the hills, illuminated by the setting sun.