It is October ... hill-climbing season for me, though not as high a hill because not as deep a pit of despair ... I looked up on the day of this climb at my beloved Buena Vista Hill from Alamo Square Park ... but anniversary stress and disappointment still required a purposeful climb away from their gravity.

Image by Jürgen from Pixabay“So, you know why beetles shine like that, right?” Things to do while grounded: figure out how to get grounded again with your also-grounded friend next door because your sisters felt sorry for you and loaned you their phones. This was what nine-year-old Milton Trent and nine-year-old George Ludlow were doing.

Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay“Look, I know what to do with paint, but you don't need me trying to drive your car, Pop-Pop. Mr. Falstaff's business ideas are the same problem, and you already know that.”“Ain't it the truth, Pop-Pop – why did you even take his call?”

Image by Carlos Lorite from Pixabay“You need to laugh after a day like this,” Mrs. Maggie Lee said to her husband, Col. H.F. Lee. “Your Ludlow cousins are well and truly in fine form!”Conscientious but only seven-year-old Amanda Ludlow was talking with her even more conscientious and also precocious but still only ten-year-old brother Andrew about a new concept they had discovered, looking at pictures of Moorish architecture in Spain with their six-year-old brother Grayson.

Image by Ri Butov from Pixabay“I feel like, because we live here and all love each other, I could write a short story every day that people would enjoy reading while also being a vegetarian and helping you save the animals and stuff.”

SourceWhat I see: The most adorable puppy, maybe a pale Golden Labrador Retriever, in the foreground of a room with a muted color palette, looking at a colorful chew toy that definitely stands out.That chew toy tells me something about the puppy's guardian ... that puppy is a bright spot, and much beloved, and although we don't see it in this image, I'm sure that puppy knows.