Salsa

Yum. Tomatoes, jalapenos, cilantro, onions, salt, pepper, lime juice. Chop, blend, refrigerate. Eat and enjoy. Preferably with homemade baked tortilla chips with a hint of sea salt and lime. Boy, do I say yum.

Living in Retro

In the past 12 months I have had the tremendous pleasure of scanning old negatives and photos. I received a photo quality scanner as an anniversary gift from Arvo. He thought I was wasting my time and money wanting to attempt the task of uploading many, many old Brownie camera negatives. My mom accumulated and saved hundreds of these from photos that were taken long before I was born. They were photos capturing moments when my parents were much younger. They were photos of vacations and outings I was not involved in. They were photos where my grandparents were now the same age that I am living today. They were photos capturing my sister and brother younger than I ever knew them to be. They were part of a family I would not join for many months and years. I was mesmerized by this family. I was on a treasure hunt to uncover the next gold nuggets that were not my past. I was obsessed. I was sad when there were no more. Now what was I going to learn? I began to upload photos and crop, blow up and enhance the original image. From this vantage point I was able to discern minute details that were not visible before due to the lack of photo processing technology. Now I began to live in retro.