Saying goodbye to the 'eyes' of the Daily Times

We gathered again on Saturday to do something we've been doing all too often these days - bidding farewell to a member of our Daily Times family.

Like most big, rambunctious families, we only seem to get the gang back together for weddings and funerals. Ironically, we had just been together a few weeks before to recall another former staffer who died all too young.

I devote my print column today to remembering longtime photographer Bert Hodge.

They don't make them like Bert anymore.

And we're all the worse for it.