Trillium Lake, Oregon

I have heard about Trillium Lake and I have seen other people's photos of Trillium Lake. Now I have my own stories to tell and a few photographs of my own.

Little known fact: swimming in lakes scares me. I swam in Detroit Lake last summer and Trillium Lake this summer. The moment where I feel my fears the most is when the water temperature drops and the color of the water gets black. In other words, when the lake gets deep!

Stories from the past week: hosting a family party for 14 in my perfectly imperfect house, seeing the kids sound asleep on the attic floor in Nana's room, going camping without my husband and pitching the tent with my sister-in-law's awesome and patient help, trying to work my husband's backpacking stove in the dark with my mother-in-law so we would know how to make our coffee in the morning, hearing my Noodle laughing and smiling with his cousins, having diving contests off the rocks into Trillium Lake, climbing around the dock where folks were fishing for rainbow trout, lips turning blue, going back to camp to warm up by the fire, my idea to raise the bar on my s'mores by putting the chocolate inside the marshmallow prior to roasting...

Summer is in full swing here in Oregon...see you next Friday!