Hello beauties! I hope this finds you well and taking good care of your sweet selves. If you’re in any of these horribly hot zones, I hope you’re mixing up lots of delicious cold beverages, dunking in cold water, filling your space with bouquets, and reveling in the delight of darkened rooms.

We’ve been crazy busy here, as farmers and wildcrafters tend to be during the summer. So instead of sharing (many) thoughts today I am going to share some images of what we’ve been up to.

But don’t be fooled by the majesty of it all. While the beauty is real, so are all the images you won’t see here—the ones where I’m so tired I want to cry and still judging myself for not getting enough done, where Seth and I are “practicing our communication skills” in response to triggering one another, where fear rumbles beneath the surface because it’s a hot and dry summer after a scary fire season last year.

I say this because it’s so easy for us to see each other’s curated worlds and forget that life’s ups and downs exist for all of us, even when we live in idyllic settings. A huge part of Seth’s and my commitment to living a life of love and beauty is surrendering to all of it—the beauty, the pain, the doubt, the conflict, the healing. The richness of it all. Here’s a glimpse of some, but not all, of it.

In love and beauty, xo Becca