last day of summer...

The last day of summer, my word how the time flies... It was a good weekend, yesterday Stuart (my nephew) & Christin had a baby, Dade Brian, so I guess I'm now a Grand-Aunt... (better than my sisters title, or my mums for that matter!) All are happy & healthy, can't wait to meet him, but it being this time of year he might be weeks old rather than days sadly... Congrats to you all, welcome to the world, Dade, we're glad you're here!

Adriana & I spent the last day of summer doing experimental spin-art - we tried different types of paints, we used our fingers in the designs, we dragged toothpicks through the spinning tapestries... We sat in the grass in the backyard, and were both covered with paint by the time we were done! We laughed so much, and enjoyed the sunshine and each other, a couple of hours very well spent, it was a great time... She's a little upset that we didn't go for a family bike ride in Nickerson like last year, to celebrate the end of summer, but perhaps we can celebrate the beginning of fall that way! She is definitely a fan of rituals, I need to be careful of what we do, because I know her, and know that she will want to do it exactly the same way year after year... (personally I'll start planning next year's plein air spinning, Adriana had suggested using her toes to make designs... hmmmm....)

While we were creating, after I'd taken out my camera because the designs left behind were too fabulous not to record, she told me about a movie they'd seen in school last week about light & shadows... She said a woman on the movie had a camera just like mine, "except she put film in it, can you believe it? Film", she said her eyes huge and round, amazed. I laughed out loud. Appears my baby, this gorgeous child of my own creation, doesn't know I used to shoot with film... How amazing... Seems I'm going to have to have "the talk" with her, the one where I tell her that her first bedroom, the one we brought her home from the hospital to, used to be my darkroom, where I used to develop and print, my film. Or maybe I should wait...