Lavender Valley Farms, Hood River, OR On a hot summer morning, Steven with the help of a few close friends convinced Linda to go out for a day cutting lavender and snapping photos. With the fresh smell of lavender mixed with Oregon's familiar wildfire smoke in the air, they made their way through the farm cutting and collecting lavender. When they came up to in front of Mount Hood, an important landmark as that is where they spent a lots of time hiking around during the infancy of their relationship, he dropped down on one knee to pop the question.