Old Memories...Old Photos

Yesterday I began in earnest to search for old photos of Ross Goldin (former spouse) who died suddenly last March at the request of his current (chagrin-much younger) wife for his four kids.

Thus far lots of pictures and slides of my parents, aunts, uncles and cousins and child self and ooddles of slides of my art work and technique slides for lectures I gave at workshops years ago. But none of Ross or pretty much that entire decade of my life.

It is a weird trip to look at old images of things you haven't thought of for years. I recall suddenly relationships with a couple professional photographers post Ross and am looking at their photos of me in my thirties. How come I didn't know this is what I looked like, at least to them? Who was that pretty young girl? Geez. How odd.

But considering Ross was also a serious student of photography... I guess he must have left with our photos, if we had any. We traveled all thru Europe for a couple months... Where are those slides? Where are my own slides of an earlier three months in Europe while an u.g.? Did images just disappear during my moves?

I have a few places left to look- an attic box of old family photos that is buried under tons of old crap and empty boxes; through my flat files of all my old design work; my horizontal files of project documentation; in my studio "paper sample" closet and the couple file cabinets left in my studio after my grand exodus and dispersal of all my old computer gear last year. I am not hopeful.

So wondering - old friends- you who are probably much more faithful to old memories in photo form than I ever was - anybody got any old photos of Ross? General call for old Ross photos. Can you who knew me way back when...40+ years ago and who knew well good guy Ross, take a look in your archives? Many thanks. I think his kids would enjoy seeing their dad as we knew him. Don't you?

Fall finally

Ok... Using qnother app of the $.99 variety. Says it will allow for simple graphic work. We'll see .

Columbia County Fall drawing below.

Fall fall falling

The mobile blog posting app is remarkably primitive compared to drawing and painting apps. The lack of any real graphic abilities within the apps make design impossible. Hopefully this will be corrected soon.

Fall vibes encore 2

FALL VIBES

Orange, wine, red, magenta, rust, gold... Colors of my world. S

Yep, it's ......

Spring.......

glorious!

a little help from my friends

To those who'd like to be included among a few old friends joining to remember and celebrate the life of a common friend we all enjoyed so many years ago. I hope you will understand my instincts since I do this outside the accepted systems for this sort of thing.

Ross died a little more than a week ago. He didn't have an accident or was sick that anyone knew about. His heart simply stopped pumping and he died immediately. Unfortunately I am told he would have been saved by a simple pacemaker- so his death is doubly sad.

Ross had a third wife, much younger than himself and four children - three of them under 14. The forth he adopted who came as a package with his current wife. That daughter is 20 just like we were when we all knew Ross...can you imagine? His sister said he was a great dad which is very easy to understand.

He was an assistant superindentant of schools in a Long Island South Shore school system. He was still a runner and track coach and lived a very busy life as he always had. A guy who always had several projects in the works but not so busy to drop everything to help a friend move or haul something up some stairs or tinker with an engine. He still had a little sports car (told it was not a Porsche however- some things do remain a first wife's domain) but had given up motorcycles. I am told he still looked great. Always important upon an exit.

He and his wife traveled to Paris last year. He wanted to show her a place he'd enjoyed as a young man. I know he loved the city of light and art. Can you imagine he and I saw a first release of "Easy Rider" in a tiny Parisian cinema so long ago? How iconically American can one get in the 60s?

We all know Ross was a funny and quirky guy who really enjoyed you all. I think I know the affection you held for him. I have lots of great memories of simple times we all shared in that bizarre period of cultural history which coincided with our coming of age. Those old memories are really very odd to have these days, so long buried. But they are part of the celebration of Ross' life and hopefully old friends will take a moment to remember a guy we all enjoyed and who captured my heart.

Perhaps you will send this note on to old friends who also knew Ross so we can send him off in wonderful 60's fashion - with a little help from his friends.

winter update

Cold and nippy in upstate New York....snow and more snow but mostly lots of chill boosting up the thermostats and the fuel bills. Of course the cost of fuel oil has gone up per gallon.

But it's very, very pretty....always very pretty. But, you know....Winter is o.k. for about four weeks and then it's time for Spring. That's my formula. Ask anyone up here and most of us would agree. O.K. skiers would have a short season but they'd also have their knees when they hit 50. It's a good trade.