Smiling at a family fun day, this mum-of-three - a teacher, respected Ofsted inspector and 'functioning addict' of more than a decade - had no idea what the next year would bring.
Just 10 months later, Elenor Proctor would be sat in a prison cell, her 'thoroughly decent life' in tatters.
The 36-year-old's 'spectacular' fall from grace was complete as she was locked up for her part in a series of 'despicable' burglaries.
Her haunting police mug shot is in stark contrast to the grinning mother pictured that day at the park.
What happened in the years leading up to that joy-filled outing - and the chaotic months that followed - was played out in excruciating detail in court.
Proctor watched from the dock as her harrowing life story became a matter of public record; her dark secret revealed.
"I just spiralled out of control," she told the judge before she was locked up for four years.
Manchester Crown Court heard Proctor worked as a teacher and Ofsted inspector.
She admitted she had been using class A drugs for more than 15 years.
Proctor's barrister said her long term relationship with her former partner was 'not loving' and that she decided to end it 'for the benefit of her and her children'.
When her partner made 'malicious allegations' about her, Proctor was prevented from entering the family home and ended up homeless, the court was told.
She then met self-confessed 'smackhead' Patrick Nicholson - a father-of-four who had done a six-year stretch for attempted robbery.
The pair were only together for a 'matter of months'. What they did in that short time had devastating consequences.
Proctor and Nicholson preyed on the elderly, stealing from their homes after tricking their way in.
In just over a week in late March and early April this year, the pair, both originally from Bradford, struck at four homes in Eccles, Salford.
Many of the victims are still suffering. One sometimes shakes uncontrollably when she recalls her ordeal.
She barricades herself into her home at night using stepladders.
Proctor told the judge she 'lost everything in the space of a week'.
"I just spiralled out of control," she added.
"I have to say Mr Nicholson tried to help me. He didn’t try to coerce me or anything.
"We needed this, Your Honour, or we would have ended up dead."
Defending Proctor, of Station Lane, Wakefield, who has no previous convictions, Mark Friend said: "This defendant went from a decent, well-remunerated existence to the abuse of class A drugs and the commission of offences like this."
Sentencing, Judge Mansell told the pair: "So low did you both go that you chose quite consciously to finance your addictions by committing these distraction burglaries, which are amongst the worst kind of dwelling house burglary offences.
"You deliberately targeted elderly, vulnerable householders living in the Eccles area.
"Such offences are cowardly and despicable and have huge and often long lasting effects on the victims."
He told Proctor, who pleaded guilty to four counts of burglary and two counts of fraud: "For you this is a spectacular, but in many ways inevitable fall from the life you once had, with a decent job and family, to being homeless on the street, to now facing a prison sentence in your mid 30s."
