Meredith used to live down the street from me. She was only 5 or 6 years old when she first moved into “the neighborhood.” A very sweet and pretty little girl I remember seeing her playing with the other kids. Her family moved down to Boulder a few years ago and I haven’t seen her since. Except today when I took her senior portraits. I couldn’t believe all that time had passed and she was already graduating from high school. And, she reminded me, how much the kids liked playing on “Jacob’s Rock” (named after my son Jacob). I had almost forgotten about that. It was nice to reconnect to all those memories.

Cabin Fever! I’ve been home with a sick child for the past 6 days. She finally returned to school today. Meanwhile, I have a ton of work to catch up with. My plan for today was to quickly run up to the dump and drop off  my recyclables and then get back to work.  Well, once I was on Ridge Road and realized I had left my camera in the car from a few days ago I couldn’t resist taking a “short trip” up the Peak to Peak. It was such a gorgeous fall day. I’ll tell you – it sure was hard to turn around and go back home and my short excursion turned into a wonderful leaf peeping photo shoot!