CLICK HERE to see my "The Children of Spring" gallery in which this image appears.

Do you remember Karoline whom I photographed last October when she was seven months pregnant? (CLICK HERE to see her gallery). Well, here is her little boy, now five months old. We ran into each other on the street on Friday. Actually, I've been running into lots of people lately! The weather was so glorious that EVERYONE was out, including me. You just couldn't stay inside, not after such a long hard winter. And now, after ten days of temperatures close to 80 degrees F./26 C., everything is blooming at once--the crocus, forsythia, magnolia, daffodils, tulips, azaleas and the flowering fruit trees. No wonder everyone is outside!

I'm continuing to take photos to add to my "The Children of Spring" gallery. CLICK HERE to see my recent additions. I've even expanded my definition of children to include high school students. When I asked if they'd mind being in a gallery with "children" in the title, they said their parents still see them as kids so it's no big deal.

You know, I've had to give myself permission to do this series on children. It seems--oh, what can I say?--rather unimaginative. I mean, EVERYONE takes photos of their kids. But the truth is I adore kids, always have. And they like me. Maybe it's because I've always been small, so I'm not intimidating. And now that I'm in a mobility scooter, I really am at a child's eye level. But it's more than that. I never have talked down to a child. To my way of thinking, they are as interesting as any adult. More so than some! I like the fact that they are real. What you see is what you get. And they can see through any pretense, so I always consider it an honor that they treat me as an equal.

Anyway, I plan to keep taking photos of children for as long as it excites me. So be prepared...