This is in a small place called Seaside. The more imaginative of you must have figured out that this is by the sea side.

We have a big soccer fan in Nikita. USA is not exactly the place for soccer fans. But we were in Portland. So we got Nikita – with help from my friends Matt and Christine – to a Thorns game. Thorns has 9 players in the USA World Cup squad playing Japan in the finals on Sunday (none of whom are of course in this game today). She is super excited…

This is the shot that I (luckily) captured of Thorns pulling ahead of the Sky Blue (New Jersey) team…

Going up from the timberline to the snowline of Mount Hood…