I grew up in the Willamette Valley. My mother's family still owns property in the Oregon Coast Range, acres of forest around the house and farm my deceased grandfather built. I visited the site a few summers ago; it was pretty overgrown, but there were apples and blackberries in abundance.
My family moved to east coast suburbia when I was a teenager, and I live in a different part of the country now, but I have such fond memories of Oregon.
I grew up in the Willamette Valley. My mother's family still owns property in the Oregon Coast Range, acres of forest around the house and farm my deceased grandfather built. I visited the site a few summers ago; it was pretty overgrown, but there were apples and blackberries in abundance.
Also, I love that your influences range from Christopher Alexander to St. Silouan to Lord Huron -- that's my kind of eclectic!
Amazing to still have family history that way. I think the Coast Range is the most underrated part of the West Coast hands down.
My family moved to east coast suburbia when I was a teenager, and I live in a different part of the country now, but I have such fond memories of Oregon.