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Each summer for the past several years, my two young granddaughters have come up from their home on the Gulf Coast to sunny North Dakota (yep, the sun shines here in the winter as well but it's usually 80 to 100 degrees colder then), to hang out with us for about two months. It's pretty cool--I get to live vicariously through them (something my son told me when he was 15... hooh, boy), occasionally capturing them at their 7- and 9-year-old best. My capture of Annie's (7yo) feet, as we were snacking at Orange Leaf, is about as original as I could make it. I did sharpen it a little (to show off her sparkly shoes--she's a princess, doncha know), but I left the dirt on her feet and ankles, as well as under her toenails (often a bare-footed princess), and the couple errant pink sugar sprinkles on her left ankle, testament to her preferred choice of fro-yo topping. Kids. Hope it brings back memories for some of you.