mia_mcdavid has woven shawls as Christmas presents for her mother and mine. She wanted to send pictures of her working at the loom to them as well. So I found my old Nikon SLR film camera, saw that it had film in it and took some pictures. As she wrote, we are running way behind on our Christmas preparations, and today she reminded me that we needed to get those pictures processed.

The snow has been bad this weekend, and we had a close call in the car yesterday (I was driving). After getting home from church and shopping afterwards I was reluctant to drive anywhere. So I shot off the end of the roll, pulled out the film, and walked about 1/2 mile to Walgreens. They have a one hour processing facility, so I dropped it off and trudged back. The return trip was worse because I was going southwest, and there was a strong (and snowy) west wind. A short rest and I went out again for the Dr. Zhivago trek–Hey, I have a very appropriate fur hat, and my route took me through a wooded park, which for a while completely masks our exceedingly ordinary suburban neighborhood.

I came home, got out the pictures and….nothing. There were some pictures from Thanksgiving 2006, and some pictures of Mia weaving the Ulster tartan on her now-retired rigid heddle loom. Nothing of her recent work. Something went wrong, possibly with the camera, but much more likely with the photographer. I need to do something different.