sweet september

September was lovely and now it’s already the middle of October. each morning I wake up it’s a little bit darker, a little bit cooler, the leaves a little thinner. time, please slow down. I am truly happy in the now and I wish the days were longer.

in September I went to Oregon, a place that’s been on my list for years. I slept in a Subaru with my boyfriend and we drove from Portland to Government Camp to Hood River to Ecola State Park. we saw the mountains and the ocean in the same day and I wish I could rewind. he told me he loved me in the morning as the sun rose above Mount Hood. we sang songs on our ten mile hike above an alpine lake and ate the best burgers at the little dive bar down the mountain. we drove that beautiful road from the opening scene in the shining and stopped in the lodge. we showered in a lake and danced under the stars in a parking lot full of other campers.