Disappearing acts in beautiful places

So we went here




which actually looks a lot more like



for two weeks which would explain why I haven't really been around here



get it? crib hanging from the ceiling?

or even here



much lately.

Going on one of those vacations makes you at the same time want to write it all down, and not commemorate any of it as it might smudge the memory too much. Even when I was there I was (sadly) aware that soon - very soon - I'll be back in the cold and the snow and a house that still needs unpacking and . . . So then I'd focus back on the buildling of sand castles with my three year old and the surreptitious eyeballing of my five year old, who thought - she really thought - that she was pretty much free to hang out with her cousins sans Mom all week, but little did she know I was watching her the whole time...

When we left, it was Fall. It was pretty much like this:




And now it's all pretty much like this:



Well, not quite. It did snow but then it melted but it's still pretty cloudy and foggy looking lately.

And that's all.

out.