It's Good in the Hood

We all went for a walk today when I got home from work.  It was the first day back to work after three weeks home with my girls.  It was strange and odd to be at work.  

I really really like my work, but now that I have Matilda, nothing else -- work, my photography, the Twins, traveling--is quite as important as it had been.  It's all still great stuff, but all of it has permanently slipped a notch in the priority list through no fault of its own.  

Out walking, we saw several neighbors and friends.  People shouting and waving from moving cars, neighbors out walking their dogs and doing their gardening.  I think we stood at that intersection for literally 10 minutes trying to cross, but we kept seeing people who kept stopping to talk.  

Again, this neighborhood is one of a kind.  It's almost like living in a time warp.  Or, as I also describe it, it's like living in my hometown of 2,000 people...but I can see the downtown Minneapolis skyline from my bedroom window.