Please don't call me crazy....

Please...

because I recently donated a whole dark room...

Enlarger, paper, canisters, instruction manuals,

etc...

to a student of photography...

young, inexperienced, enthusiastic, naive,

and surprised at the volume of

equipment that was being offered for free...

This equipment was stored at my parents' home,

and had tons of old emotions from a failed marriage

attached to each piece...

Sadness...

Worry...

Fear...

Anger....

Well, you get the picture,

I just simply couldn't look at it anymore.

So,

I called the local Community college...

found a photography instructor,

asked him to find a deserving student,

who could really use a break...

And he delivered.

They loaded a truck on a rainy afternoon...

and drove off with part of my history.

Whew!

No Image Today....

Well, I am finding myself on someone Else's' computer......
Trying not to look like dork....

I can't even seem to hit the space bar correctly....

But I am inspired...

Well.....really just lost....

I might have to start over when I get home,

as my typing technique today is estrogen induced

I can't remember....

What you may ask?

Well, just about anything...

My mind flits about like a hummingbird...

They tell me it is normal for

Menopausal women to be forgetful..

but this is bordering on just sick...

I make plans...

I forget plans...

I make a date...

I forget the date....

I forget what I am doing

in the middle of doing it...

They also tell me it will get better when I am

fully "menopausaled"....

What does that mean?

That I will have a memory and be completely

hormone deficient?

Whatever...

I also seem to have misplaced my reading glasses....

Ahhhhhh......

There are an abundance of "how hot is it?" jokes

swarming like bees....

Impossibly hot....

Predictably hot....

Sweltring...

Muggy....

Meltingly....

Opressively....

HOT!!!

It's OK though..

we have A/C.....

I grew up in this town without it.

I don't know how I would cope now,

but in the sixties,

it got just as hot,

and all we had was fans...

That is what drew me to

The Impossible Cool

and I was richly rewarded....

Beautiful B/W portraits

of the most gorgeous

movie stars and starlets

of the 60's....

now is that cool

or what?

My Uncle Burt......

This is Burt and Judy....

young and in love...

Maybe 1965..

I thought they were the most beautiful couple in

WORLD...

I was eight...

I am now 52,

and I still think they were the most

glamorous couple in the world....

I idolized them...

Burt died on Sat...

my birthday...

I will never have another birthday that

I don't think of this.....

I am sad,

and yet....

glad that he has been released from

the disease that killed him....

It was wicked..

Burt Batty, 67, civic-minded retired administrator, sailing buff Portland Press Herald