2014: A Year In Pictures

Life! The days are short, but when you go to count 'em up, you find that entire years have amassed.  

jan

January: Indoor concrete. The spark of a brand-new year. Cold nights, the moon frozen in the western sky.

 

feb

February: Heart-shaped cookies. Sunny days and then days of blizzard. Ducking inside to drink tequila and then walking home through a snow globe.

 

march

March: A bouquet of waterfalls. The pine-laced air of central Oregon. Rain, sun, and how all the cherry blossoms pop over night.

 

april

April: Long walks 'neath the flowered drooping trees. The institution of backyard mini ramping. Lefty in the morning light.

 

may

May: Golden-hour grinds. Campfire nachos and sleeping under the stars. That sweet, pine-sap smell that tells of an Oregon summer.

 

june

June: Falling down a kind of rabbit hole of summer.

 

july

July: Zoo-bombing on warm nights. Skate camp. And that night we took the rainfly off our tent and peered straight up into the dome of stars.

 

aug

August: Heat. Haze. Big roving rain clouds. Summer ends softly like a feather floating to the ground.

 

sept

September: One last river day. Trish and Cairo, tying the knot. And all of my buds in my backyard for my birthday.

 

oct

October: Warm fall nights, soaring down empty streets with the leaves flying away. Halloween hijinks that are done by 10 p.m.

 

novem

November: When your life turns on a dime.

 

december

December: Backyard skate secrets. Forgetting things that need forgetting. Copious celebrations and an apocalyptic wind storm.