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We were hiking around the lake at Codorus last week, back during our two weeks of happy camper-hood, and Coley found this black walnut husk.  I'd noticed it in the path, both coming and going -- struck by its unusually emphatic heart shape.  On our way back to camp, hurrying a little because the sun had already set and we had quite a way to go back to the trailhead, Cole saw it too as we hiked past.  Only he scurried back to scoop it up in his little monkey paw, scurried again to where I was waiting, ran up to me and pressed it into my hand.  "A present for you, Mama," he said, and then ran ahead to catch up with his cousins. 

One of my most treasured possessions, now.  I asked him to hold it so I could take a photo, right before we got in the car to drive the boys over to their dad's house for a four day visit.  It never gets easier, leaving them.