![Students in the National Art Honor Society work on the Mount Hood mural on the window of SouthLake Church. The students brought a variety of paints and mixed their own custom colors. “Instead of brushstrokes, we’re doing more dabbing, because it gives [a] better impression of tree foliage, rather than looking like actual brush strokes, because if we’re painting trees, we need it to look like trees,” Crawford said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_2397-1200x900.jpg)
![Main Street said farewell to summer on Aug. 30 through the second annual Chalk Walk Art Festival. Ruth Offer, Chalk Walk organizer, brought this tradition from Wyoming in an attempt to make use of the renovated sidewalks of Willamette Falls Dr. “[This is] a community event for the kids,” Offer said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-12-1200x803.png)
Adrift-Snow Daze
Snow Daze
Adrift-original artwork by Anna Olsen
Adrift
Original poem by Kaelin Kehm
I flew adrift
Laying in the snow-
Letting my mind
Wander through the
Depths of my
Imagination.
A sea of stars sends waves throughout
The sky-
My memories shine above a
Mountain,
To which I must paddle
Across the lake of my
Mind-
In order to reach my
Sea of memories
In the form of
Stars.
Even though I had
Arrived at the mountain-
My canoe gently rocks
Against the soft current
Of my imaginary lake, and
I am adrift.
No anchor-
To keep my canoe in
Place,
No ladder-
To climb in order
To reach the beautiful
Sea of stars that I
Continue to stare in
Awe of.
To be adrift,
Was to be lost
Inside of my
Imagination…
Knowing that
I would eventually
Find an anchor,
Find a ladder,
Escaping my
Canoe-
Escaping the lake-
Where I would
Never be able to
See my own
Reflection-
For the lake,
Only chose
To reflect the
Stars.
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