Ruby in the Catskills (Part II)

Today we drove south 30 minutes to New Paltz to visit some friends -- Trippy, Jen, Dexter, Gus and Chet! the dog. They moved up from Brooklyn a couple years ago and now run an amazing cafe called Market Market. (Mai and I went with Rueben sandwiches -- veggie and beef, respectively -- unintentionally tributing one of Ruby's nicknames.) Lots of fun there -- some 'hide the baseball' and making-faces games with Mr Dexter. Plus some tears, some laughs all around.

We've been filling imaginary rolls of digital film trying to capture Ruby's sudden smiles -- and failing. In most, like a portrait below, she ends up looking grumpy. Grumpy and chubby.