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