Contrasts

Here we are in Hawaii, November 2007...

...with this background. Temperature was around 80 degrees.

Here we are in North Carolina, November 2008...

...with this background. Temperature around 40 degrees.

No matter where we are it's just as sweet.

Mothers

I came across a couple quotes in the book "Mother and Daughter Reflections" by Pat Ross.

"Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage." --Louisa May Alcott 1869

"If I could have given birth to you, I would have. I would have taken you inside me, held you and given birth to you again. I like to think that wherever you go, you will keep some memory of sunlight in the room where I first loved you, and you first loved." --Fran Castan 1986