<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Veronika Berglin, 7, holds a leaf Thursday as she and classmates of Prairie Children's Center play in a creek at Rathdrum City Park. Eight children from the center participated in a field trip to the park as part of Rathdrum Day in the Park, hosted by the city's library.</p>
<p>BEN BREWER/Press Farmer Don Leidel glances back off his tractor as bales of hay begin to pile up on his Prairie Avenue farm just east of McGuire Road in Post Falls on Wednesday.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Paul Twigg finishes covering his children, Jason Twigg, 11, from left, Aiden Twigg, 6, and Emma Twigg, 9, with sand Monday on the City Beach in Coeur d'Alene. The beach burial of the Twigg children has become a vacation tradition for the family on holiday from Calgary.</p>
<p>BEN BREWER/Press Alexandria Keyser of Priest River chows down on a fresh apple pie during Sunday's pie-eating contest at the City Park Bandshell as a part of the Fourth of July festivities. Keyser put up a good fight, but eventually lost the sixty second speed eating competition to Kaleb Hester, center right, of Athol.</p>
<p>SHAWN GUST/Press 12-year-olds Aspen Thomas and Samantha Dansereau, left, girl scouts with troop 2278, hang chromatographs to dry Thursday during a Hands n Science event at Rathdrum City Park. More than 80 area children participated in the event used primarily as a recruitment tool for the scout program. The art made through the chromatography process uses pigments separated through the application of a solvent.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Tyler Macklin, 8, throws his balsam-wood airplane skyward during an outing Tuesday to Hilde Kellogg Park in Post Falls with his uncle Jesse Macklin.</p>
<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Alexis Espies, 19, sits up while sunbathing with a group of girlfriends Wednesday at Independence Point in Coeur d'Alene. Rising temperatures prompted hundreds of beach-goers to gather on the shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press A deer peeks over the top of tall grass near Cougar Bay while grazing under the high-noon sun Wednesday.</p>
<p>BEN BREWER/Press Farmer Don Leidel glances back off his tractor as bales of hay begin to pile up on his Prairie Avenue farm just east of McGuire Road in Post Falls on Wednesday.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Paul Twigg finishes covering his children, Jason Twigg, 11, from left, Aiden Twigg, 6, and Emma Twigg, 9, with sand Monday on the City Beach in Coeur d'Alene. The beach burial of the Twigg children has become a vacation tradition for the family on holiday from Calgary.</p>
<p>BEN BREWER/Press Alexandria Keyser of Priest River chows down on a fresh apple pie during Sunday's pie-eating contest at the City Park Bandshell as a part of the Fourth of July festivities. Keyser put up a good fight, but eventually lost the sixty second speed eating competition to Kaleb Hester, center right, of Athol.</p>
<p>SHAWN GUST/Press 12-year-olds Aspen Thomas and Samantha Dansereau, left, girl scouts with troop 2278, hang chromatographs to dry Thursday during a Hands n Science event at Rathdrum City Park. More than 80 area children participated in the event used primarily as a recruitment tool for the scout program. The art made through the chromatography process uses pigments separated through the application of a solvent.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Tyler Macklin, 8, throws his balsam-wood airplane skyward during an outing Tuesday to Hilde Kellogg Park in Post Falls with his uncle Jesse Macklin.</p>
<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Alexis Espies, 19, sits up while sunbathing with a group of girlfriends Wednesday at Independence Point in Coeur d'Alene. Rising temperatures prompted hundreds of beach-goers to gather on the shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press A deer peeks over the top of tall grass near Cougar Bay while grazing under the high-noon sun Wednesday.</p>
A collection of imagery found while out and about in North Idaho during the past week.