Changes

Changes come in many forms. Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. New life, death. New job, loss of job. Leaving home, coming home. Leaving one state, coming to a new one.
This change is hopefully a good one. A new life, new challenges, new places to explore, new jobs to find. The picture was taken two years ago, just over a year before they were married.
Now they are living their last week in Texas before coming to Oregon. Jamie has been there 11 years, Darren off and one for nearly 20. But finally life is changing and Texas will be something they see in the rear view mirror.
Challenges? You bet. Jobs, maps, finding places to eat, drivers tests, medical stuff. Different pharmacy, different restaurants, different landscape. Changes.
Four seasons, not two. Mountains and hills, not flat earth in all directions. Green, not brown. More liberal, less conservative. (not all of Oregon, but true in the Portland area) More green from the standpoint of nature, recycling, and other such stuff. Changes.
Better and easier when you are young. ;-) A new city, state, to explore and learn. New approaches, different ideas. Same country, but a different world. Changes. Ahhhhh...