This past weekend we attended a wedding in the woods. We stayed in a cabin… …hiked through the woods… …gazed at the ocean… …took extremely serious photobooth pictures (in which yes, I wore flannel)… …and learned what to do if you encounter a bear or cougar. (Luckily we didn’t end up needing to know.) It […]
Celebrations
Today is my birthday, and we’re heading to a weekend wedding on the Oregon coast at a summer camp on an island (the dresscode is “camping casual,” ha!). Sounds like a pretty good way to celebrate a birthday, if you ask me. The “limited phone service” part might be just a bit challenging, but I’ve […]
Outfit Post: A Bit Undone
It’s been forever since I’ve done an outfit post, partly because I haven’t found a good spot in my yard to take photos, but mostly because I’ve been really lazy lately about wearing anything worth photographing. Home improvement projects, yardwork, and blogging don’t really lend themselves to dressing well. So I have to make my […]
Photo Finish | 15 August 2014
Last weekend we tried to go camping at the coast…and totally failed. All of the campgrounds were full, which is kind of what we should have expected on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of the summer. So instead we just spent the afternoon at the coast. Although we didn’t get to sleep in the […]
Photo Finish | 1 August 2014
This week, I made the following discoveries: That Dot’s, practically a Portland institution, is still rad after all these years. And their food never disappoints. This graffiti, on some speed bumps down on a riverside bike trail: That our neighbors a few doors down have ducklings in their front yard. They’re in the front “because […]
Photo Finish | 25 July 2014
Some experiments with bleach and denim. Not sure what exactly I’m going to end up doing with it, but I like where it’s going. It may not sound super exciting, but this week our big accomplishment was that we finally finished painting our front porch. It’s been a long odyssey of stripping off carpet (ew), […]
Photo Finish | 18 July 2014
Today I’m debuting a new weekly series, “Photo Finish,” where I’ll share some pictures of my week that might not fit anywhere else. I’m going to slightly cheat this time by starting off with a few from my visit last week to Crater Lake. As a teenager I had been to Crater Lake, but Steven […]
My Weekend
Sometimes I forget that I’m surrounded by an incredible amount of natural beauty just a short drive away. This weekend we decided to take a little hike to a place in Washington a friend had told us about, Beacon Rock. It actually has a pretty funny history: It was named by Lewis and Clark in […]
What I Wore: Stripes and Spots
When Modify Watches asked if I wanted to review one of their watches, I jumped at the chance because the concept of watches with interchangeable faces and bands sounded really cool. Basically, Modify makes watches with all kinds of different faces (I have the black polka dot face), and silicone watch bands in a bunch […]