Whoa...36 loops in a row! That is something my daughter would love. Great pictures. The roses and the green of the lanscape is beautiful- and so are the children. I miss that intense greenery sometimes. I grew up in Maine. The Tucson landscape is vastly different from New England's.

I agree with you. The simple things in life are more meaningful to me, especially as I've gotten older. I can certainly appreciate those unscripted moments like today when a man stocking shelves at the grocery store stopped what he was doing just to talk to me...to ask me how I was and to relate a funny story about his son. He could have just kept working to get his job done, but he took a few moments to make a connection and I was the lucky recipient. Great post, as always! Thank you.