26th Street Sentiments: Summer Lovin'

There is a part of me that becomes a bit nostalgic in the summer. I associate warm balmy evenings with high school memories: Wes asking me to be his girlfriend (aww), the girls and I driving home from dinner together to go night swimming at someone's house, or going to the Laguna Creek racquet club to go night swimming with Cory and our brothers and watching the grasshoppers jump from lane to lane. Do you see what I mean? Anyway, I am loving the weather in Portland this week. It hasn't reached temperatures to create "balmy evenings" yet but it'll be rising closer to the 80s till next tuesday. So tonight after dinner (wes is at work) I decided to take a nice walk over to Palios to get some coffee and enjoy this weather. We haven't been to Palios in two weeks now that we have had internet at our place. And boy had our usual walk changed in two weeks. The rose garden by ladd-circle has exploded with roses! And all the garden's at people's houses are growing. It was absolutely gorgeous and reminded me of my first trip to Portland in spring 2007. This trip took place during my spring break. I was living in Colorado at the time and I met Wes in Portland to visit his cousin. I thought it would be fun to show you some pictures of some of the places we went during that trip. If only we knew then that we would be moving here. Enjoy!

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