I’m in Portland, Oregon all this week for work. The magazine I write for–Sustainable Industries–hosted its Portland Economic Forum on Tuesday and then we held two days of editorial meetings afterward. Since I was already planning to come down this coming weekend to help pick grapes at Blooming Hill (where my mom and Jim live), I decided to make a week of it. So I’ve been staying at the farm all week and commuting in to Portland on the light rail every day. (An aside: It is so nice to have a train to take to work instead of a bus. I wish Seattle were more forward-thinking. AH well. Soon we’ll have light rail too.) One of the benefits of this is that I get to wake up in and go to sleep in a beautiful setting everyday. Although I never want to commute this far to work on a regular basis (about 30 miles or so) because most of my time is spent at work, getting to work or sleeping and not enjoying farm life, it does provide opportunities like waking up to the view I had yesterday morning.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Sunrise at Blooming Hill Vineyards

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