We are messin with a new gadget.

We got a cool new toy that allows you

to scan your slides and put them on

your computer...well holy cow. I

took a huge trip down memory lane

and saw pics  that I took on my old

trusty Minolta SRT 101...my pride

and joy back in the 1970s.  

Downtown Sheboygan 1972

Me at 19!  In a Victorian wedding dress that

I got for $1 at St. Vinnies.

(wish I still had that!  dang..)

Jaya woman’s collective.

We were opening a shop in Santa Monica

on Main Street.   Rent $75.00 a month.  Ha!

I’m 19 here...the youngest of the group. 

Some of my best friends at that time...

Two of them have passed away. I Haven’t

seen a picture of them in many a year...

Looks like an album cover.

My beautiful nieces...

My brother Dave...we took a trip

around Lake Superior in his Vista Cruiser in

1972.  

Canada

Upper Michigan.

It was New Years Eve.  We celebrated it twice.

Once in Michigan then crossed the time line and

celebrated it again in Wisconsin.  In those

days the bars had a full spread of food and

noisemakers and all the rest. 

fond memories of: 

cole slaw

“cannibal sandwiches”

rye bread

smoked fish

herring

potato salad

roast pork sandwiches

jello molds

macaroni salad

poppyseed torte

The memories are flooding back

and my mind is filled with it all.

Simpler times.

I’m getting homesick.

Lake Michigan in Sheboygan.  New Years Day.

The Polar Bears yearly swim.  The city would come

out at noon to watch a bunch of crazy people go in

the freezing waters.  Lake Michigan is freezing

in the summer...winter?  I can’t even imagine

doing such an insane thing.

I only have about a thousand more slides and photos to go.

It is going to be so much fun and I’m looking forward

to it.  The beauty of it all is that I can mess with the pics now in” iphoto''

and clean them up and crop them.  That old cardboard box of

slides is taking on a new life.  They were getting all faded

and blotchy.   I mean, who looks at slides anymore?

I think this new gadget,  the “ION Film and slide Scanner”

also does black and white negatives because I got

a whole folder of those...that was when  I got

really serious with photography and took classes

at Santa Monica College...There should be

some real dandies in that lot.

It is odd that we are doing this at the end of a year...

a year that has been so filled with a flood of tears,

emotions and memories.

Perhaps these photos will spark some new stories...