today was cold + humid, which = CLAMMY, which is as delightful as it sounds -- until it started raining and just became cold and wet. (also undelightful.) However, saturday was the most perfect type of sunny summer day imaginable, which was very nice for driving around and visiting the lavender festival, which is what I did! (photos still on camera.) As much as I love the sun and the heat (for at least a few weeks a year), I must admit the rainy weather is nicer for sleeping, if only because the raccoons are silent.
ANYWAY. I have been uploading pictures and just came across these from two weekends ago on Sauvie Island. I went with my sister to get more berries for jam, and we ended up touring the whole island which was great fun.
From Kruger Farms, where we bought the berries. It was the last day for strawberries, and we got one of the last picked flats. Then we were starving, which turned out to be no big deal because every weekend Kruger has a bunch of food carts. I had a grilled veggie burger with cherries on the side (I added the cherries), which was very good. They also had grilled corn on the cob, which I was very sorry not to have eaten. Maybe next time -- the summer is still young! Anyway, there were a ton of people, but it was festive rather than annoying.
On our drive we made it over to the mysterious beach side, where I have never been! Sauvie island has sandy beaches along the Columbia river. (Most infamous are the 'clothing optional' beaches, but we only drove by those.) Anyway -- as you can see, it was a nice day for the beach. I don't think I'll ever love a river beach as much as I love the ocean beach, but this was really lovely and 2 hours closer than the ocean. I could totally see packing up a lunch and a lawn chair for a day of reading in the sand.
this picture is just to show that you can see mt. hood from here. (at least 2 other mountains are visible from the island, but hood was the only one I could see from the beach.)
I love this picture. It looks very british-children's-story bucolic to me.
barn! grass! barbed wire! I took this out the moving car window. This looks like the kind of place where you get bitten by a snake and die a slow and horrible death because the snake took your phone and refuses to call for help. (or maybe there are barn dances! But you have to look out for the phone stealing snakes and the tractor mechanic with the fast hands.)
there is a little sliver of barely visible day moon in this picture, but mostly I like it for the gentle curve of the grass. (On the other side of the grass is the beach.)
ANYWAY. I have been uploading pictures and just came across these from two weekends ago on Sauvie Island. I went with my sister to get more berries for jam, and we ended up touring the whole island which was great fun.
From Kruger Farms, where we bought the berries. It was the last day for strawberries, and we got one of the last picked flats. Then we were starving, which turned out to be no big deal because every weekend Kruger has a bunch of food carts. I had a grilled veggie burger with cherries on the side (I added the cherries), which was very good. They also had grilled corn on the cob, which I was very sorry not to have eaten. Maybe next time -- the summer is still young! Anyway, there were a ton of people, but it was festive rather than annoying.
On our drive we made it over to the mysterious beach side, where I have never been! Sauvie island has sandy beaches along the Columbia river. (Most infamous are the 'clothing optional' beaches, but we only drove by those.) Anyway -- as you can see, it was a nice day for the beach. I don't think I'll ever love a river beach as much as I love the ocean beach, but this was really lovely and 2 hours closer than the ocean. I could totally see packing up a lunch and a lawn chair for a day of reading in the sand.
this picture is just to show that you can see mt. hood from here. (at least 2 other mountains are visible from the island, but hood was the only one I could see from the beach.)
I love this picture. It looks very british-children's-story bucolic to me.
barn! grass! barbed wire! I took this out the moving car window. This looks like the kind of place where you get bitten by a snake and die a slow and horrible death because the snake took your phone and refuses to call for help. (or maybe there are barn dances! But you have to look out for the phone stealing snakes and the tractor mechanic with the fast hands.)
there is a little sliver of barely visible day moon in this picture, but mostly I like it for the gentle curve of the grass. (On the other side of the grass is the beach.)
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