Happy August! It’s Thursday again, which means it’s time once more to look back on three beautiful things from my past week:

1. A woman walks down the street carrying a golden retriever puppy in her arms.

2. Sam and his wife, Alexis, and her family were all in town for a vacation and chose to spend Saturday afternoon with us at Nationals Park watching the Mets game. Since Sam, Rudi, and I have known each other since before Rudi and I were a couple, and since we don’t see each other often anymore, it was really nice to have a few hours together (including an extra one caused by a rain delay) to catch up.

3. Rudi and I went out for gelato and, because the night was fine, took our cups over to in front of the local museum and sat out there together in the dark for a while.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world this week?