Thanks for the kind compliments everyone!

My hair is naturally soft and somewhat fine, but still really wavy (odd combo, I guess). Living at the beach, the salty air coupled with swimming in a part-salt water pool tends to make it coarse, and I forget how soft it is until I go into a different weather environment and get my "real" hair back. The picture I posted was taken in inland Belize where it was soft. Always surprises me as it was coarser when I was coloring (for most of my adult life) -- that stuff is pretty damaging. I like my natural hair a lot better. It's just "me".

Most of my friends color, and I do understand why; after all, I did it for decades as well. But I do feel a special affinity and sisterhood with women my age and younger who have embraced their gray.