Summering Along

Summer came on hot–like 117° (47° C) here, which is staggeringly unheard of in my cloudy corner of Oregon. Of course as soon as it finally dropped into the high 90° I took a wonderful (but also hot: 111°) weekend camping trip to the desert.

Some fun notes: camping in the middle of the desert was gorgeous, even though we had smoke pollution from the big fires raging through our forests. We slept outside under the stars one night, and that, my friends, was one of my bucket list items: sleep unde...