Flowers in our Hair

I was so pleased that Jules, my 15-year-old, decided to give me a "breakfast hike" for Mother's Day. I used to do it often as a treat when she was little, but in recent years she has flat-out refused to consider an early morning hike to be a pleasant thing. Which is fair - she's a teenager, after all.

This year, she knew that a hike in the woods would please me more than anything she could buy me. We prepared breakfast together (lox & bagels, and a bowl of fresh strawberries), packed our knapsack, and headed up into Black Rock Forest for a wonderful morning - just like the old days!