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Fall

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Ten minutes from home and I'm in the mountains. Every red tree is a treasure, every colored leaf a jewel. Just as I put my camera away, I'm pulling it out again. For ninety days we partake of a spectacle, a wonder that never grows old year after year. When the last leaf falls, and the skies flatten to gray, a white flake whispers, drops, and a new feast begins.  

Summer Vacation

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Over the last six weeks I've been enjoying a vacation from social media and have focused on my family!  I've spent time at our cabin with friends, discussed The Things They Didn't See at four book clubs, spent a wonderful week back at the cabin with my daughter, son-in-law, their baby, a few of their friends and a surprise arrival of another son and his girlfriend! And topping it all off, I was in New York for ten days holding my newest granddaughter  and playing with her big sister. Each night I made dinner and the kids wandered "home" at varying times after work and school just like the old days when they were children and teenagers and you never knew when someone would arrive and another would have to leave. It was a dream come true to once again have my children around my table multiple nights in a row, juggling babies, parents eating with one hand, a preschooler running from one room to the next to help, to show us something, to go potty. A jumble of conversa...