senior fotoNovella: Kayla.

I drive country roads like it’s a hobby. Don’t judge. I think you have to live in Eastern Oregon to understand we don’t have a lot of entertainment options. Let’s see: people-watching at Wal*mart? cat-fishing in the dark? rat-stomping in the cornfield? Nope. NO. No thank you. So, along with taking-up collecting boots, brass door knobs, & barn doors (yes, really): I drive. I drive roads like Despain Gultch, Stage Gultch & Missouri Gultch to Pendleton. I take Feedville to Hermiston, Buttercreek to Echo, Coldspring to Holdman & the Oregon Trail to the Columbia, where I ford a river and my oxen drowns. Yeah. Eastern Oregon, my friends!

I could take the freeway and get there faster, but then I’d miss the deer, barns, fences, silos, fields, farmers: all of which I’ve stopped in the middle of a country road to capture with my camera, on one drive or another this summer. You know how I love me a weathered farmer foto! Well, Kayla’s hotter than any farmer I’ve taken pictures of, but as President of the Hermiston FFA Chapter, our country-road fotoshoot fit her perfectly.

& so with a little John Denver: Country roads, take me home to the place I belong…