watercolour, ink and marker
©2017 Charlene Brown
In the summer of 1968,
the Canadian government launched a cross-country recruitment drive for computer
programmers. Fortunately for me, one of
the departments requiring more programmers was Fisheries and Forestry.
Within two months, we’d moved to Ottawa, found an apartment and a babysitter, and I’d settled into my new job (the first one ever for which I was completely qualified). Within a year, I’d had a promotion and a retroactive raise and actually bought some furniture! And I’d met an RCAF pilot of whom I was quite fond.
But this happy situation looked to be falling apart a few months later when he was transferred to Colorado Springs… Fortunately, undeterred by the fact my daughter and I were kind of a ‘package deal’ he returned to Ottawa briefly at Christmas time in 1970, married me and our next move was to join him in Colorado.
There’s a painting of Colorado in my May 11 blog post, and in the next post I talked about how this painting launched this series about places I used to live.
“We lived in Colorado Springs for a couple
of years (in fact our younger daughter was born there) and the painting gave me
an idea for a series of blog posts.”
