September

It's September, and it's the start of my favorite season! This September is off to a fun start with a visit to Cleveland over Labor Day weekend. It might involve kayaking, baseball, grilling, family time, a certain Maggie dog...or all of the above. I thought it might be fun to have a look back at what we've been up to the first week of Septembers past!

September 2014 + + +

At the beginning of last September, we were heading into the end of our stay in Portland. We tried to cram in a bunch of stuff before we left, so the first week, we went up to Olympic National Park for the second time. We did the famous Hurricane Ridge hike, used AirBnB for the first time, went to a cidery, and had a great time. Places like this are one thing we miss about living in the Pacific northwest - but I think in the end, living there helped us appreciate beauty in our surroundings, no matter what our surroundings are. (We keep talking about how when we lived in New York before, we never went to the park. It's such a nice park! It has huge trees and beautiful views! How did we not appreciate it?)








September 2013 + + +

We went to O-tsukimi at the Portland Japanese Garden, a nighttime festival that celebrates the full moon. It was so nice to walk through the garden in the moonlight, almost the whole thing to ourselves! We also made risotto with chanterelle mushrooms - the most delicious things in the world, that we'd never had until we lived out west.







September 2012 + + +

My dad and stepmom visited us for the week and we travelled all around Oregon! We went to Hood River and actually saw Mt. Hood (it wasn't even cloudy at all), stopped at Multnomah Falls and the I-84 gorge overlook. Then we drove out to the coast and stayed in Lincoln City, did a whale watching tour where we saw no whales but were immersed in a foggy world (just as awesome!) and visited the Newport aquarium. We always like showing people our part of the world, wherever that part of the world happens to be.









September 2011 + + +

Our first September in Portland! I think we spent most of the month looking for jobs even as Seaborn Press became more and more of a real thing. In the meantime, we went to Sauvie Island and the farmer's market so much that I started canning lots of stuff. Peach jam and pepper jelly and fig preserves - all kinds of stuff. Later we realized...maybe too much stuff. But in early September, it was nothing but canning!