Photography, art studio will open at Palouse

Shop will offer photo

classes, sell mixed media art

A combination of 140 years of farming and 122 combat missions have led to a new business in Palouse.

Michael Walters, a retired Naval Air crewmen from Nampa, Idaho, and partner Sarah Collins, from Palouse will open a mixed media crafts and gift shop along with a photography studio on Main Street in November.

It will be called Spring Wheat Rose and Rolling Hills Studio.

“It’s a lifelong dream for both of us,” said Walters, who went back into the Navy for nine and a half years with a plan to go into photography after retirement.

While the shop...