PNW | OCTOBER 2014

my 5th trip to the pnw was this past october. i went for 2 weeks and hung out mostly by myself. i still don't know if i'll ever move up there's a lot of things i love about the south that i'm just not ready to leave. (the heat and the politics can go fuck themselves though.) but it sure is a beautiful part of the country to visit.

1-2. plane right to portland
3-4. boxer ramen - shiitake shoyu
5-6. drive to cannon beach
7-8. cannon beach
9. ecola point
10. drive to portland
11. lardo - pork meatball banh mi 
12. stumptown - vanilla latte
13. burgoo bistro - bacon marmalade biscuits
14-17. vancouver bc aquarium
18. blacklist tattoo
19. stumptown - mocha
20. new tattoo selfie :D

CANNON BEACH

i could never do the oregon coast justice.

i went alone one day during my last visit to the pnw. (which is not my favorite thing to do. i'm happiest when i'm around another person, i have decided.) it started sprinkling while at the beach so i packed up and left in order to make it to ecola state park. i only made it to the first point before turning around. rain + skinny road in the middle of the woods = scared as shit kristin. it was pouring by the time i got back to the little beach town to eat.

JELLIES | VANCOUVER BC AQUARIUM

“for whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always our self we find in the sea.”

- e. e. cummings

i've always loved this quote. i feel alive when i'm near the ocean and have admired the creatures within it since i was a young girl. 

PORTLAND | JUNE 2014

1 short week in portland, or. not much happened this trip, so i'll be going back in october. my home away from home. i already have a list of places i want to visit, including vancouver, ca.

VSCO WEEKLY SELECTS 01.08.14

whoa dang, y'all. this blog has been pretty empty as of late. my apologies, i've been busy livin' my life. :P part of which has included spending most weekends with friends, and photographer whatever i can. including the below shot of my friends' pup, zoe. she is the sweetest great dane and i sometimes want to take her home with me.

i know it's silly, but they always say photograph what you love. and i did. i walked in my friends' home, zoe climbed in the chair, and it was perfect. so much so, that it was included in vsco's weekly selects. how cool is that?! what an honor, for real.

see the rest of those featured here.