Spring

Photos from a story I wrote for our newspaper. Apple blossoms. Lovely.

paper and ink

So I recently started working at our local newspaper and I wanted to share some pictures of the inner workings because I am so enamored with the nuts and bolts and moving parts of the printing process.

When my sister saw these photos she said, "Of course you would work in a room that shade of green."

the brownie

I have a long-standing and unbridled love of outdated technology, as evidenced by my continued use of fifty year old metal ice trays even though my finger tips stick to them when I pull them out of the freezer.
I realized recently though, with a tinge of sadness, that I used to go to greater, more stubborn lengths to do things the hard way. I bought this Kodak Brownie at an estate sale years ago. The model was discontinued in 1958. They no longer manufacture the 620 film this camera needs, but I found out it is possible to respool currently manufactured 120 film onto an old 620 spool and fit it into the brownie. I diligently searched antique shops and estate sales for a stray 620 spool, eventually buying an entire second camera to cannibalize. I was a photo student at the time and I patiently sat in a pitch black room and fumbled the film from one spool to another, put it in the camera and went out into daylight. Later, when I went to develop the film, I found out that it was unusable. All the photos had overlapped one another in a long continuous line. The 120 film was not marked for the brownie, so there was no clear way to know when it had advanced safely from one shot to another.
I suppose I'll try again though, I'm nothing if not a mule.

Hi-Yo Silver

Lately, we've been on a mission to sort and neatly arrange Joshua's family photos. Right now they are spread out several inches deep on our dining room table as we diligently stack them into related piles. It's been a good project, I think, because I now know that I've married someone who as a child ran around in white underpants and a lone ranger mask.