"Where'd it go?"

A couple of weeks ago now Poppy and I were hanging out outside on a Monday. It was a beautiful sunny day and I had decided that my weeks project was going to be playing with full sun photography. We were playing with the 'pretties' (as Pa and Poppy have renamed flowers) when Poppy suddenly stopped and stared at wonder at the black 'spot' on the ground that moved when she did...

It was one of those beautiful moments when I am reminded that there are so many things in life that Poppy Cate has to discover. I watched for ages while she waved at her shadow, touched her shadow and tried to run away from her shadow before I realised that I had a camera in my hand!

When Poppy moved into the shade of a tree she looked up at me intently, arms out, and asked 'where'd it go?'

She looked backwards and forwards, down the drain and behind her back before she stepped back into the sunlight and screamed with delight when she discovered it again. She then proceeded to wave to it and run away from it again with childlike abandon. Her giggle is so infectious. I could barely contain myself.

She is growing up before our very eyes. Can it really be two years in three weeks? 'Where'd it go?'

Fran x