Back to Nature

The weather in Texas has broken, to the extent that you can walk a baby in a jog stroller along the river in the middle of the day without feeling like a bad person. Indeed, today was the first time in nearly two months that I put baby in the truck, drove her someplace pretty, and shared a few moments of being absorbed by nature with her. She got a little bit warm (the temperature was in the upper 80s or low 90s), but some wind was coming off the water and she smiled when we stopped at a little vista and took in the view. When we returned home, she enjoyed a big drink of formula and laughed and played more freely than I had seen her do in a while.