The first weekend of the year is here! It's been a bitterly cold, but sunny week in Portland and we've been doing our best to stay bundled. After two weeks of holiday and a trip to play in the snow at Mt. Hood (above), I slowly eased back into work with two photo shoots and a few admin tasks to wrap up the business year. Time to enjoy the weekend ahead, have a great one!

Top food spots around Portland will be selling pink boxes of cookies in support of reproductive rights, available for pickup 1/18 or 1/19.
Incredible photographs of the starry nights and empty, wartorn streets in Idlib, Syria.
The New York Times 52 places to go in 2017. Top of my list is Tallinn, Estonia.
The eighth and final year in photos from the official White House photographer. Tear.
On New Year's Eve, I visited Kainos Coffee in NE Portland (pictured below), which had fantastic coffee and donates 21% of profits to orphanages in the Philippines.
The post-holiday urge to purge my belongings has been intensified thanks to the documentary Minimalism.
Making Cuban black beans and rice for the first time. Delicious!