Seeing as yesterday's post was a little heavy and because this is truly a photography blog first and foremost I thought today I would lighten the mood a little.  

This afternoon I got the chance to visit with a former neighbor of ours from Chicago.  Tim and his wife Kari lived two houses down from us and I have to admit, I loved our neighbors.  We often converged at the house between ours, Rick and Erica's place, to hang out by the fire, grill a few burgers, have a drink and talk about life..  More often than not those nights would be impromptu, cued only by the chance of taking the recycling out at the same time.

However, I think we caught up on life the most whenever Tim, Kari, Rick or Erica would see me in the back yard snapping pictures of small bits of beauty in a rather unremarkable backyard.  When we first moved into our apartment I swore the next summer I would make something of the garden, but as time passed I realized the desire wilted faster than any houseplant I've ever attempted to make survive.  So instead I let nature take it's course and took pictures all the while.