just drive or bye bye summer.
Hey y’all, it’s about that time for summer to leave us again. For those of us whose lives are still somehow affected by the weight of that news, I just wanted to take a moment. For me, this was a good summer, full of work but equally full of play. I love the permission summer gives us to somehow try to equalize those parts of our lives more. Summers are pretty sweet that way. So anyway to say thank you and goodbye to summer I am posting a visual top twenty, cliff notes version of my latest playcation/road trip through northern california, into central oregon and back down the coast again. And I tell you if I don’t remember anything else about this year, I will remember these moments because standing in the places where I made each one of these pictures literally blew me away. This is a beautiful world—true story—and summer is the perfect excuse to roam around and explore it for yourself. The only thing better is if you can grab a friend, a map, pack a cooler and just drive until you can’t do anything else but stop at the water’s edge.
crater lake
pearsony falls, prospect, oregon
a beautiful road on the way to stoudt grove in redwood national park
stoudt grove
along the smith river, jedidiah state park
inside fern canyon
skyward
redwood national and state park
trinidad beach
along the gorgeous rogue river
inside the ladybird johnson grove, redwood national park
the cathedral tree at trees of mystery in klamath, ca
crater lake
in the lava beds at mckenzie pass looking over at the three sisters mountains
darlingtonia plants
sun setting on crater lake
more old growth redwoods along howland hill road
fern canyon, inside prairie creek state park
first image and this last one: glass beach, ft. bragg, ca