Still Hanging Out in California

It's been a bit rainy and overcast today and it got me thinking about other wet April days. Picnic Day is advertised as the largest collegiate open house in the country. The University opens up to show off to parents and prospective students and to entertain the town. The weather can be variable. Sometimes hot, sometimes chilly and sometimes amazingly perfect. These two pictures are from a year when it was wet and cold and nasty. But everyone was in good spirits, like the bad weather was an amusing challenge.

This boy was walking backwards and talking to me. He was fascinated by the underwater housing I had on my camera. I don't have that camera anymore. My husband lost it long ago. But I still have the plexiglass housing to remind to not spend so much money on another. I didn't use it nearly as much as I thought I would. A plastic bag and tape wouldn't have been as elegant but definitely a lot cheaper.

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I'm currently going through a media changeover. Because of hardware changes, the time is coming where my older photo files will become inaccessible. I could adopt the attitude that all things are impermanent and let these things pass into extinction. Unfortunately there are a lot of family pictures in that mess that I don't want to let go. And by mess I mean a 500 gig hard drive that is mostly organized but barely edited.
I made a joke about this being a summer project. After ten hours of sorting, I'm beginning to see the joke is on me.
Here's something I found during yesterday's session. I'm not worried about the child's identity as this picture was taken in 2006. He's a grown man now and this vulnerable version of him doesn't exist anymore.