A bolt of lightning streaks toward the remaining vestiges of a rainbow over the Lewiston Orchards as a thunderstorm rolls through the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley on Wednesday.
Evening sunlight and rain illuminates the sky south of the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport as crew members close up the cockpits of P-51 Mustangs as a storm rolls across the area on Friday, June 28, 2019, at Hillcrest Aviation.
A pair of pelicans do some morning bathing at Swallows Park in Clarkston on Friday, April 12, 2019.
Despite the overcast and general haziness of the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, Gary Meacham, of Silverton, Ore., moves his brush across the canvas of an oil painting he worked on from a scenic overlook atop the Lewiston Hill on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Meacham, who grew up on the Camas Prairie, hopes to do an art show in the valley one day that comprises many of his oil paintings from across the area.
People walk along the Lewiston Levee Parkway Trail as the sun sets on Sunday, July 15, 2018, in Lewiston, Idaho.
A semi truck hauling bales of hay slows down as it enters Colton, Wash., while the sun begins to set below the hazy horizon on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018.
A full moon rises south over Lewiston, Idaho as it greets the tip of a neon martini glass sign above a bar on Wednesday, July 16, 2019.
The sun sets behind a hill as a pair of horses run along a fence line as a farmer tills his field on Thursday, April 19, 2018, south of Uniontown, Wash.
A mother deer and its doe bask in the final moments of a hazy evening glow on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, a few miles south of Alpowa Summit in southeastern Washington state.
Charlie Cindric, of Spokane, Wash., surfs the Lochsa River pipeline on Sunday, June 3, 2018, near Lowell, Idaho. According to fellow surfer John Brown, of Boise, when water levels are running between 5,000 cubic-feet-per second and 12,000 cfs the river creates an ocean-like wave for surfers or kayakers. On Sunday, the river was running at 9,500 cfs.
Standing above the Snake River along the Southway Bridge one sees a variety of boats cruise past its piles. Here a knee boarder swerves back and forth behind the boat's wake while heading upriver on Friday, July 6, 2018, in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley.
Umbrella-clad pedestrians walk underneath blooming cherry blossom trees in front of Reid Centennial Hall on the Lewis-Clark State College campus on Thursday, April 5, 2018.
A setting sun makes for a colorful backdrop as a flock of birds disperses around a freshly harvested field east of Uniontown, Wash., on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018.
People scattered on the rocks atop Steptoe Butte watch as the sun sets into the smokey haze west of the Palouse on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019.
The afternoon sun begins to shine down into the Idaho Capitol Building as a woman talks on her cell phone while walking along the fourth floor on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, in Boise, Idaho.
On the last day of 2017, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and state Route 127, a fogbow appears above a slightly fogged in field near Pataha Creek. Fogbows — a somewhat rare occurrence, also known as ghost rainbows or white rainbows — occur in similar situations to rainbows. Except the smaller droplets of water that hang in the fog are not large enough to reflect the spectrum of light to create the color one sees in a rainbow.
The late afternoon sun shines down onto the fields of the Palouse as a crop duster enjoys the views while servicing a field near Colton, Wash., on Monday, March 19, 2018.
Steam rises from the Clearwater Paper plant in this 13-second exposure taken from Normal Hill looking east on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, in Lewiston, Idaho.
The setting sun illuminates the foliage on the east end of a pedestrian bridge as a woman crosses over the Palouse River on a beautiful fall evening in Palouse on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018.
Morning light spills into the second floor windows of Sacajawea Hall as Kylee Brooks, a nursing major from Mountain Home, Idaho, studies for her upcoming scenario testing on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
A small murmuration of starlings claims a branch forcing avian fellow to find somewhere else to rest its wings on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, near the confluence of the Snake River and the Clearwater River in Lewiston.
Brandon Ohmie (left) looks on as co-worker Kevin Grote takes in the majesty of the thick fog layer coating the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. The pair who work for the marketing department at the Lewis-Clark State College spent the morning creating time-lapses and taking video footage of the occasional weather phenomenon.
Exhaust rises from the Clearwater Paper Plant in Lewiston, Idaho as a gaggle of Canada geese fly east above the Clearwater River on Nov. 21, 2019.
Two boys race along the Lewiston Levee Parkway Trail as the sunset shimmers on the Snake River on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Lewiston, Idaho.
A bolt of lightning strikes down in Lewiston, Idaho as a storm passes through the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley on Friday, June 12, 2020.
The sunset brightens up the clouds as a trio of skateboarders ride along the Lewiston Levee Parkway Trail on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Lewiston, Idaho.
Two bald eagles battle over a fish while flying over Lake Coeur d’Alene in Idaho on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. The winter is peak viewing season for the eagles as they fish for kokanee salmon on the northern Idaho lake.