Thursday Challenge—"important"

Well, c'mon—what could ever be more important to me
than my children?  Here are Katie and Lila, circa 1985 . . .

and not quite 30 years later.

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beautiful bimbi

All children are beautiful, of course, but

what is it about Italian kids that just makes

me want to pick up my camera and take a

picture of every single one I see?  This is a

very small sampling of the shots I took (these

were taken in Venice, Florence, and Siena)

while I was there .