a long weekend on the lake

This is one of my favorite weekends of the whole year: all my family gathered at the lakehouse for a few long summer days that drip with sunshine and fresh water and fun. The Olympic Mountains stand guard in the north while the sun crosses from one side of the lake to set behind our cabin every evening, casting long shadows over the dock and pulling behind it a canopy of a million stars for us to fall asleep looking at every night.