Summer Nostalgia is a collection of images that document and illustrate the feeling I get each summer when I’m brought back to the long, open, warm days of childhood summers. I’m lucky enough to have some best pals that make it a priority each year to celebrate summer in all its glory and meaning. These trips to the San Juan Islands and Olympic Peninsula are a sacred time where I can connect with a more carefree version of myself. Long drives with our hair whipping in our faces, singing memorized 90’s country songs. Canopies of tree limbs along winding island highways. Juicy drive-through burgers and swirl cones. Last minute compulsions to drive to Lake Crescent and pick up swimsuits at Walmart on the way.

Summer Nostalgia also documents the last summer before becoming pregnant with my son. My last summer that belonged to just me.