I took her picture before she left.  She is three or four times as pretty in real life, but I’m still new with the camera. 

Yesterday, several of Shasta’s friends made her feel like a lucky sun (warm with love) . . . I dropped her off at Aubrey’s condo in the late morning and picked her up a few hours later.   She sat like Alice at a tea party.

(not a mad one, but colorful and scented with lavender)

(no angry queens or hatters)

(my metaphor completely breaking down)

(I think, from the descriptions I’ve had, it was an un-mad tea party –thrown, not by Lewis Carroll or even Jane Austen, but with a mixture of glamour and wit and magic, like an episode of Sex-in-the-City meets Charmed meets The Gilmore Girls). 

Anyway, Georgia, Christy, Aubrey, Nicole, Steven, Katrina, Victoria, Lexie, Elizabeth, and Erica –thank you for giving Shasta such a beautiful morning.  She was beaming about it afterward.  She could hardly sit down, because of her happiness.