My Dear Friend Cathaleen

I recently received an email from a very dear friend Cathaleen (Cathy) ...

We have not really kept in touch since we went to school together at RIT back around 1980, but I hope to change that as I really miss her after hearing from her.

I was a computer engineering major and she was a photography major, although I was really majoring in being a Disco DJ and minoring in Foosball :-)

I was also into 35mm photography as a hobby (back in the days of film), where most of my photography was done with slide film.

Before I moved here to Tennessee (August 2004), I had an Ultimate Garage Sale, where I sold / threw out / gave away just about everything I had collected over @ 40 years of life. If I couldn't put it into one of my large (40+ gallon) rubbermaid totes, it was not being kept, as I was moving to Tennesee on a motorcycle, and planning on having my most important belongings shipped down to me by UPS when I got settled and could afford it.

The reason I mentioned this is that one of the things I threw out was my large slide / photo collection (mostly slides). Prior to doing that, I had scanned most of my slides and had them somewhere as digital photos. When I read Cathy's email, I immediately thought of some of the photos I shot on various trips with Cathy, but I couldn't find them ... aaarrggghhh!

iPhoto To The Rescue ... Although I'm now a professional photographer with Killboy.com, I hadn't used iPhoto in a while, but I thought I had some old pictures of Cathy and I as well as some of my older photos. iPhoto came to my rescue and helped me find the shot of Cathy and I you see above.

I *think* the photo was shot around Niagara Falls as Cathy and I made several trips to both the American and Canadian sides of that wonder of the world.

Cathy now has 2 beautiful grown-up daughters, and manages a large team of photographers with AOL.

I haven't had time to organize / upload more of my photos, but I did put together a small Flickr Set about Cathy.

One of our most memorable trips was to Fort Lauderdale, FL to see our friend Disco Debbie (another friend from RIT). I was of course Disco Dave and in many ways I still am! :-)

As I recall, Cathy and I took my very first Honda Civic from Rochester, NY to our old home in Gang Mills (sorry, no street view yet!), before heading South for the 24+ hour trip to Florida. Oh the days of being young!

Anyway, Cathy found me because of this blog, so I am thankful for being able to get back in touch with such a dear friend!