The dining room window faces west. The late afternoon sun sets lower into the sky, and the tree outside the window, with all its new leaves, filters the light providing the perfect backdrop for dinnertime.

For 12 years I have watched this tree grow, and I have watched them grow even longer.

Finally spring is here, our dinners are no longer lit with candlelight.

Instead, brilliant colors of green, splashed with golden light fills the room.

It’s girls’ night…Stephen is traveling. Our dinner conversation takes us 1000 different directions.

This is my favorite time of day.