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Mother's Day in a San Francisco Garden

·San Francisco, California·#bay area#family#spring#garden#mothers-day
A smiling woman holds a child on her lap in a sunny garden filled with green plants and white flowers.

Mother's Day, and we marked it outside first — a sloped garden on a San Francisco hillside, all white groundcover spilling over the rocks along the stone steps. We sat on one of the boulders with the baby, who lasted through the sitting-still part longer than expected and then got hold of one of the white flower stems and held onto it like it was the whole point of the morning.

The sun was strong enough that we eventually retreated inside to the couch. The baby, still in the little white outfit, was in a good mood — big open-mouthed grins, feet everywhere. I ended up wrapped in a white throw, forehead to forehead with the kid at one point, which is about as good as the day needed to get.

First Mother's Day with this one. The flower did not survive the afternoon.

A woman sits on a rock holding a baby, surrounded by lush green foliage, white flowers, and a house in the background.A light-haired child in a white shirt holds a small white flower, with a field of white flowers and a rock behind them.A person looks at a child sitting beside them on a couch, with indoor plants and an outdoor view in the background.A person in a white top looks at a smiling child in a white shirt, sitting on a couch.A person in a floral top and white shirt sits next to a smiling baby in a white polo shirt on a sofa.A smiling person in a floral top and a baby in white sit on a couch, with plants in the background.A woman in a floral top and white shirt smiles next to a baby in a white polo on a couch, with plants in the background.A woman with brown hair and a baby are face-to-face on a light couch, with green plants visible in the background.

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