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No story today but maybe a little expansion on each of the pictures. Though most of the pictures I took of Helena were posed shots I enjoyed "surprise" candid pictures also. She didn't like them much. Like the first picture today. She used to say that it was a lot of work being beautiful. Here the work is in progress. She might be smiling but if I remember correctly right after the shutter clicked her middle finger came up. That picture was taken around 1979. The next picture is from the mid 80's. She was taking some kind of medication that caused her face to bloat some. I have very few pictures of her from this time. This was taken in my parents back yard. The next shot is from 1982. It was taken in the badlands of Nebraska. The brown case she is wearing around her neck contains her SLR camera and lens. She is holding (can't see it in the picture) a piece of a fossil mammal jawbone with some teeth. They cover the ground in some areas. (You can't remove them from the area but can pick them up to examine them). The next picture is from 1981 or 82. It was taken somewhere in California. She didn't pose like that much. With her arm on her hip. Don't know why I think it looks very nice. The next picture is taken at Sea World in California also taken in 81 or 82. She is feeding the sea lions. (They had vending machines that dispensed paper cups of chopped fish) One time she was feeding the sea lions and was holding the fish up to make the sea lions rise up. To her surprise a one legged sea gull swooped down and grabbed the fish right out of her hands. Scared the daylights out of her at first. The last picture is from 1980 taking a break somewhere on a trail in Colorado. We very seldom took long trails. Neither of us were in the physical shape to try to hike to the top of the mountains. Still we would average five to seven miles a day on our round trip hikes. All of them were day hikes we never spent the night out. She kind of drew the line there. Mountains were for the sunshine, motels were for the moonlight. That's it for today. Back soon.