Leafdays

I had a flash of inspiration just before falling asleep on Saturday. An idea on how to finish that collage I had started on a whim. It was the three segments I had sort of found myself with that suggested it. Well, that and, I suppose, the fact that we were still celebrating my daughter’s first birthday. So why not make it a collage for her, to celebrate the fact that she is born? And so in came the bird, the nest, and of course, her picture. And a funny little memory I wanted to preserve. The very moment Caterina was born she was delightfully white and pink—she reminded me of strawberries and cream. Then they put her in a warmed crib (a routine procedure which, they told me, helps prevent jaundice) and she became lobster red—and stayed red for a good three weeks afterwards. All her newborn pictures were taken in the lobster phase, so I thought it would be nice to remember that very first, lovely white and pink moment.