Things I Love

Because, if I'm going to embrace a weekly theme, can you really see me doing Wordless Wednesdays?

Some things I'm loving today:

My boy's birthday is today. I keep being afraid that I'll be done with the fun-loving kid years, but my kid? He's some kind of awesome. Growing up like you wouldn't believe, but all kid.

Cake baking. Not cake-baking-aftermath cleanup, though.

A boy calls 911 to save his family -- from gunmen. I've heard the kid-calls-an-ambulance stories, and those kids heroes. But this? Whoa. Just listen to it, and see if you don't get choked up. That kid stepped up.

I just remembered Buzzard Day is coming. I'm ridiculously happy about it.

Dark chocolate.

Wildflower season is here. Expect flower closeups, flowers-from-below-with-sky, flower-with-smiling-kid-bokeh, and many other floral clichés in the coming days.

Son, light, Preserve. Sigh.

The Preserve rocks. Well, it always does, but it's golden right now. Literally. Also, the birds are awesome. My son and I ran into a fellow the other day who was new to both the area and to photography. He grabbed a shot of the black-crowned night heron we were all ogling before running on, saying "I want to get a shot of each bird in here." I didn't have the heart to tell him. Still, that's the cool thing about places like that. You never really run out of material.

Good stuff. Happy Thursday, y'all.