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I spent most of today reviewing and cleaning the remaining pictures of Helena that I have. A lot of those pictures are mostly landscape pictures with a small image of her to give scale to what we were seeing. I have eliminated a lot of those as far as posting goes. I'm afraid they would not mean much to most of you who are exploring this thread. Also I am getting low on stories that I can tell that would be of interest to you. There is still a possiblity of finding more interesting photos of Helena (including possibly nude or semi nude photos) but I will not be able to look for them for a while. Anyway there are about 7 days of photos left and then I will be taking a long (hopefully not permanent) break from posting. Before I talk about todays pictures just a couple of words on beauty. When I speak of beauty I am talking about that quality that inspires you to gasp out loud when you see a photo or video of some person. Each of us has our own idea of what is truly beautiful. My idea of beauty may or may not track with your idea of beauty. As far as I see it there are three types of "beautiful" people. There are those that are beautiful in still pictures but lose that quality when you see them move and talk in person or on video. There are those that are beautiful in person or on video but lost that beauty when their image is frozen into a still picture. Then there are those who keep their beauty no matter whether still or in motion. In my opinion, in my "eye of the beholder", Helena fit into the third catagory. I found her as beautiful in still photo form as I did in person. I regret that I have no video of her. Her one appearance on local television occured before we had video taping equipment at home. The only moving pictures I have of her are two short (1-3 seconds each) snips of her in a 8mm film I made (both nude scenes). I have lost that film and hopefully have not thrown it away. I will be looking. Selecting pictures for posting here over the last two months has brought all the beauty I had known back to the front of my brain. It has been a great joy and also achingly sad. I had grown used to seeing her through her illness and it has been wonderful seeing her youth again with "older wiser" eyes. So lets look at some more pictures. I have selected and then rejected our first photo many times over the last two months. It doesn't show her face and is a pretty small image of her but for some reason I keep coming back to it. Anyway it is a kind of butt shot. Here she is walking into the Crater Of Diamonds park in Arkansas. The next is a resting shot from the early 80's in Colorado. Note the Denver hat she is wearing. It is one of the things of hers that I have not removed from our bedroom. I have left it hanging just where she left it after the last vacation we had. Number three is another rest from the late 70's this time also from Colorado. I really wish that could have been a nude. But even clothed I love it. Number four is the shot just after Helena drinking from the "goat skin canteen". I posted a picture of her drinking before and this is just after. The face she is making is due to the fact that the plastic liner of the bag gave a very nasty taste to the water. The next picture is Helena in Monument Valley in Arizona. Most people hire a native American guide to drive them down in a four wheeler but I told we could make it in our car. Well we did but it was the hardest drive I have ever had. We had to balance on two ridges with two foot ruts between them. We had to balance on those ridges over a winding road from the valley floor to the top while being passed by the four wheelers. Man I caught hell for doing that. Never again. The last shot is a contented Helena in a hotel room after a good day in California, also in the late 70's.