The tourism business should start picking up soon, with Spring just around the corner and the economy looking better each week. It will be good to have some more paying guests around this place.
We had an interesting visitor last week, a professional genealogist. She said that the lost-relative business has been strong, probably because all the unemployed persons sitting at home have time to research their family roots online. When they reach a “dead”-end, they call her for help.
She mentioned that many clients have some old photographs of great-great-grandma and grandpa. Some of the old photos are faded, some are torn, marked-up or creased. Many color photos have shifted to reddish or yellow. Some photos were behind glass and stuck to it. They ask her if there is a company that can restore those old photographs. She said that she recommends American Photo Retouching for photo restoration.
She herself is often surprised at how much better the damaged old photos can be made to look in the hands (and computers running Photoshop) of photo restoration experts.
I asked her about the idea that scientists have recently found a lemur that may be an ancestor of the human race. She laughed, and said that she doesn’t research back that far.