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Natalie asked me to show her how to use the iPhone camera yesterday. We were sitting at the cafe splitting a maple-oat scone that she had been looking forward to ALL DAY, ever since she learned that if you take the bus home from her new school you get to transfer to the 89 right in front of True Grounds, and as far as she's concerned, that's pure heaven. So, even though this and that and the other had made us about an hour later than I'd intended, we still sat and ate our scone and watched the world go by.

Mostly, though, we watched the sunset. If you didn't see the sunset over Somerville last night, you missed an extremely beautiful display. We sat munching at a sidewalk table, and every few minutes we'd exclaim over some part of the sky or another turning orange or pink. At one point, it got to be too much for me, and even though I didn't have my SLR on me, I had to take a picture, so I stood up, got out my phone, and walked to the corner. Natalie ran up behind me and said, no no! I want to take the picture! let me! And how could I say no to that? So I did.

( cut for kid pictures, but not in the usual way )

After that, she asked me which iphone button you had to press to get to the camera. I foresee a lot of sneaky little-girl pictures stored on my phone in the future...