Nostalgia and light

I miss those baby days,
those teeny toddler years,
our magic rose garden light


And even our household light, just the tiniest slivers of sunset peeking through neighbourhood houses, just enough to play in before bedtime on a late Spring or summer eve.


Our street and home then was not that photogenic or interesting, but it did have little glimpses of great sunset light! I would much rather a field or beach or rose gardens for an evening backdrop, but if I obscured the background in that street just so, and waited for the light and her to play together in just the right spot, it was perfect.

Baby dress

Baby dress drying in the wind in sunset light. xo

My little one is getting older and the baby days of my girl are ending,
baby and little toddler things are being forgotten, finished or put away, for the little big two-ish and three-ish preschooler days ahead.
I wanted to try and capture some of these nearly gone baby things, like the little classic baby dresses that added a bit of fairytale and imaginary play to our mornings and afternoons, or a bit of whimsy with her favourite stripe tights. She still wears this baby dress though! Because she is tiny still. :) But the dear little stripe tights are outgrown. :(




*p.s. I wrote this and saved to drafts last Spring. She is younger than that again here, two and a quarter. x