This sweet and windy adventure up through the grass and flowers of Rowena Crest, Oregon was shot only a year ago! It seems surreal now, just how different my life and the entire world felt then. Last May I had just finished my final semester of school in Montreal, and was only in Portland for a few days before going back to apply for a Canadian work visa. As those who tend to overthink like I do will relate to, I spent so much time last spring imagining what I thought every possible trajectory of the next year of my life could be. Somehow I didn’t imagine up anything close to where I find myself now…
I won’t go into detail about all of the strange and hard and wonderful things I walked through in the last year, because I’m betting you’re here for this cute couple and their dog. As you should be! But I just wanted to say that this shoot and the current worldwide pandemic both go to show that you really can’t predict or control anything. I know, I know, I’m obsessed with control too, and the idea of letting go of the strings to something as big as how you get married sounds awful. I hold onto things so tight it hurts sometimes. This day last May was a good reminder for me though, that even when you step out of the car to winds so strong they feel like hands pushing you away from everything you wanted, you can still flop down in the grass under the protected side of a hill or find a hollow in the meadow to set up a cake.
Even when nothing at all turns out how you imagined, you can find the warm spots, the unexpected joys.
Florals: Sunblossom Farm