Love the pictures!! Casey, I'm sure you found many photo ops there. This is from my piano recital at age 8. I love the body language in this one. Notice my devoted suitor on the left! It's hard to interpret my expression, because the negative showed a white bar across my lips and I had to operate on them--not very successfully. My recollection is that I wasn't awfully appreciative of the suitor. Howie, to the right, is clearly distancing himself from the boy-girl stuff. He was a great guy....became a NYC lawyer with a nice family. He died last year. Carolyn, next to him (she's still my friend) looks happy. Sandra, in front, is a year younger and obviously basking in in the presence of all these grown-up 8-year-olds. :-)

Casey, what an awesome picture. The colors are fantastic!

Jasdip, the chickadees are very adept at getting to the birdhouse without getting stuck by thorns. They use that birdhouse every year, so they must like it, it's a busy place. LOL

We finally had sun for the last couple of weeks so the tomato plants are going crazy. We have already eaten 2. Here is one almost ripe about 4-6" across, "Old German" heirloom. Clare