Juxtaposition

When I went back to the photo directories to look for one-year-ago memories, I found a wonderful mix of pictures. The pictures are named by date with a suffix which identifies the camera. Pictures that my mom took at home, then, are mixed in with pictures we took in China in date order. Part of the directory looks like this (all pictures one year old):

A calm, snowy day in Washington State, USA, . . .

followed by anxious parents waiting at civil affairs in Nanning, Guangxi province, China.

Brothers playing DS at home. . .

while their parents see their sister for the very first time on the other side of the world.
(Blurry picture as the camera was operated by our guide, but our first glimpse of Ariana, whose adoption blog will be updated very soon.)