Addenda

• Edith is up to $14 in stuffed animal sales. I'm floored.
• We've been to kindergarten orientation and it looks promising on multiple fronts: friendly teacher, whose voice sounds like that of Edith's beloved preschool teacher, Ms. Chrissy; friendly kids, eight of whom live on our block(!); lots of neat stuff in the classroom; fantastic playground; and a bunch of parents who seem like possible friends for us, too. One of these parents turned out to be Tom's former classmate from the Fletcher School at Tufts...in addition to being our neighbor and the spouse of one of my new colleagues.

The school playground

• Speaking of our neighborhood, here are new angles on the view that we've happened on in the last few days. I hope I never get over my awe at the beauty of this place. I've started biking to work, and I wish you all could be along for the commute--it's breathtaking (in more ways than one).

Looking toward downtown, where the college is. My bike ride each day is from near where I'm standing as photographer  to the high rises in the distance. Guess whether it's easier biking to work or back home?

Our neighborhood can be seen in the foothills here: above the highway bisecting the picture, to the right of the red rocks.

Looking down on Garden of the Gods