At 03:59 PM 3/23/06 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >>I am in the process of moving to Richmond, >>VA, and my wife may have found a perfect house, one with a decent space for >>a dark room. > >Great news Marc! At least the last part of the sentence... I can rant for hours about this Four years back, we bought a marvelous house in the Old Southwest section of Roanoke, Virginia, a building of 3600 square feet and including a full basement, a garage, and, in the attic, a servant's room, a school rom, and a trunk room. I had itended on using the servant's room as my darkroom but, other than having water run to it, the project just got waylaid in the course of other concerns. This house was bult in 1896 and still has the mounting blocks for horse-riders in the front yard; it was built by the grandfather of the next-door neighbor, who is a long-time acquiantance and who has lots of pictures of this house over the years. I am heartsick at leaving it. My personal office is in a former sun-porch. There are a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers who do their dance of lust outside my window, six feet away, every year. I doubt that I shall ever enjoy such a display again so close to my working space. But having a working dark room is a grand thought: my gear includes a Leitz V-35 and a Beseler with APO-Rodagon lenses. Hell, I've never used the 80mm lens in real life. Hving a real darkroom makes photography interesting. I have not taken one percent of the pictures I have shot over the preceding ten years since I closed my last darkroom down in 2002. And I still cannot figure out digital stuff. (Sure, guys: CARTHAGO DELENDA ESSE and all of that!) Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list