…with old and dear friends…

 ….rare hours together, the opportunity borne of sadness…

 …but within that opportunity, finding the joy and the fellow-feeling that comes of years as friends…and as parents… and as children…
An elbow each and a knee of the ones I love, lit up by the late afternoon sun, on the other side of the camera this time, thinking of the many golden photographs of our four children, taken in the same spot over so many years.
This time, it was our turn to get close and let the sunbeams write many of those thousand words that are now captured…