Facing sunset

They were here the better part of a week, and they left a week ago today, and I'm just now getting back to normal.

My mom (she's the one in the black) came down on the big hydrofoil from Fort Myers with my Aunt Liz (in maize, with her grandchildren Junita and Federico) and my Aunt Nadine (with her second son, Robert, a Baptist pastor from Orange County), and of course we had to go out to Higgs Beach to make long shadows in the winter sunset.

There was some dinner and dancing at La Te Da, brunch amid the chickens at Blue Heaven, slow walks along Old Town streets -- the usual tourist stuff. And it was great.

But three women in their 80s, used to independent living but having to interact under one roof. . . . Well, it wore me the hell out.