33rd Birthday: Awesome! I got bangs and went to Olympus Spa and had lots of walks with the dog and a great dinner with dear friends. Thanks for all the well-wishings, everyone!

Montana weekend: Intense! There was a fresh baby and a wedding and lots of tears. Dre’s stepmother made it to the wedding, which was the most important thing. The terrifying “two weeks left” prognosis seems to have been extended, which makes me happy for everyone, but especially Dre’s half-sis. She needs all the time she can get with her mom, now that she’s a new mom herself.

As a diversion from the intenseness, I spent some time with an enormous light-up shoe sculpture that a woman commissioned for her front yard:

The shoe

I took 500 pictures this weekend, and they’re slowly going up here.