Growing Up

How strange that today, the photograph on the right popped up in my memories on my iPad.
It was taken about five and a half years ago when Ruby was twelve just before she performed for the first time with National Youth Ballet.
Today was the end of term show at The Northern Ballet School in Manchester and we drove over to see Ruby. 
In the intervening years she’s had her ups and down, mostly a long term injury that has meant she now doesn’t follow the classical ballet route ( her first love) but has overcome that setback and still does contemporary ballet and a jazz focus.
I took a photograph of her beforehand as l prefer her natural beauty to when she puts on stage makeup.
Interesting to observe the changes from girl to woman.