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Sometimes I don’t think learning something new is fun.  Sometimes it is still necessary, so I have to believe this is going to get easier!!

Evidently Adobe has expired the free old version of Photoshop that came with my scanner — and I’m not one bit happy to have to dink around with their online version of photo doctoring.  There is no way I can “fix” the photo damage to my mother’s face, for example.

I’ll have to decide if I can afford to fork out the bucks to get their NEW version now.  And here I thought the one they gave me with the scanner could continue working just fine.  No warning — just tried to use it tonight and —  DEAD!

I uninstalled my Photoshop thinking I could reinstall it in case I forgot to register this software in the first place.  Only now the door on my computer for the disc drive won’t open.  It’s a fairly new computer, not abused, and now I couldn’t install a brand new version, either.  I guess these fire damaged pictures will just have to stay this way for awhile!  Anyway – – –

I FINALLY have my very first photograph of my mother — and of the homestead ready for viewing!  Please take a look!

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It strikes me that my mother is literally and figuratively standing on the epitome of a Borderline Personality Disordered woman’s BORDERLINE in this picture.  On this spot, at this point in time, she is standing on the borderline of where civilization met the wilderness, on the borderline of where civility met ‘the frontier’ — in all actuality — of madness:

*1959 June – Mom, Tractor, Stuff

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*1959 June – Two Views of Hut and Mountains

I’ll be working with more pictures — this should all eventually get easier with practice, at least, but the online photo editing is technically CRAPPY!

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