Early fall 1975

Waiting for a plumber to arrive, I've been scanning old slides today,

some as old as 1975 -- like this one.



I remember the day very well. It was September 29th, 1975. It stuck

in my mind because, even though it was fairly cool in the air, Peter

and I discovered the water in Conception Bay was quite warm. It does

that every autumn, get warm, but I hadn't known it before then: the

warmest saltwater temperatures are in late september or early October.

Anyway, what was most remarkable and memorable was that Peter and I

stripped down and went for a dip in the saltwater that day.



I also remember the day well because it was the first time I had wild

mushrooms. Some other friends at the party we were attending had

spent the afternoon picking edible mushrooms, something I had not

known about back then, and they turned them into a delicious mushroom

soup. I've been a fan ever since.



I don't know what kind of film this was, but it may have been a Fuji

E-6 film. The camera was a WW2-vintage German vfr camera that I never

mastered and eventually replaced with a Russian one. I was pretty

good at exposures back then, though -- I just read the exposures off

the film box. This was a cloudy day and the film was probably rated

80ASA, so the box would have told me something like f/3.5 at a

hundredth of a second.