I imagine it makes her mama pretty happy to see her daughter glow like this. She's already graduated and will be moving on to bigger and better things, I'm sure. It makes me a teeny bit nostalgic to look through all of my Class of 2011 seniors and see on my calendar that I'm starting sessions for my Class of 2012 students in just a few weeks. My word! Where does time go? These are truly some of the best times of your lives, seniors. Make as many memories as you can!

...I'm guessing she has officially graduated and moved on to all of the incredible things that await her life after high school. She's got it all, that's for sure...sharp as can be, confident, a stunning, natural beauty, and a go-getter. It was a real treat to meet her and work with her this spring.

When you meet someone who is about to begin a life on her own and you notice that she is insanely beautiful and confident and intelligent, you have to wonder where she'll go? What great things is she going to do with her life? Does she even realize how amazing she is and how many wonderful opportunities are going to come her way?

And then I start to wonder if I feel this way about *other* people's children, how in the world am I going to survive when it's time for my own birdies to leave the nest?

Last fall, everything was gold...the leaves, the light, the land, the flowers. How fitting to represent this time of golden opportunities that await after her senior year.

I thoroughly enjoyed working and chatting with her tonight. Such an exciting time in her life as she finishes up high school and ventures off to a BIG city (as in New York big) to start following her dreams. But the more we talked, the more I realized that as much as things have changed since I was in high school, much more than that has stayed exactly the same. And that's really cool....

...because it makes me feel like I'm not quite as as old as I actually am. ;-)