Photos From a Lost Roll of Film

This is a post that I started a couple of weeks ago and got side tracked, but several weeks ago I was looking for my sunglasses that fit over my prescription glasses and I was going through some old purses that I left stuff in when I moved into a new one.

In one of them, I found two rolls of 35mm film. One had been shot, the other hadn't. I couldn't believe that I didn't get them developed, because I could never wait to see how the photos turned out. Plus, I haven't used that camera in many years, not since I went digital.

I had no idea how old they were, or even if they could still be developed, but I took them to Walgreens to see. They couldn't develop them at the store, but sent them off to some place that could. No idea what it would cost, but I anxiously waited about three weeks to get them back. They cost almost twenty dollars, but they were worth it.

I figured they were nature shots, and most of them were, and I figured out that I took them in the early nineties at the latest. Judging from the picture of the cat and kitten, and when they adopted us, they are at least 35 years old. And the whole roll of 24 developed perfectly!

I've only scanned six of them into the computer for now, but I'm sharing them here.

Bird on a weed on the little hill behind our house with my dad's tractor shed in the background (my dad died in 2004). I think it's a wren, my favorite little bird.

A pretty shot of my dad's wagon/buggy shed back on the same little hill behind our house.

A  shot of one of the three flower beds, this one with a fountain and bird feeders, that my little Pekingese and I tended for a few years. We loved sitting out there with coffee listening to the fountain and the birds!

The bird feeder that my dad made for me. The paint job was my idea, as we live in the Rabbit Hop community. The squirrels also enjoyed it, and occasionally a cat took a nap in it. We still have it, but it has gone way down hill over the years. The birds still love it. See the woodpecker chowing down?

This very verbal Siamese cat adopted us, and had been here for several days when we discovered that she had one tiny calico kitten hidden under our central unit. I called her Simmi Cat and the kitten Loopy Bocephus. Simmi Cat would let us pet her, but it took about all summer to coax Loopy into letting me touch her. She eventually came around to letting us pet her, although begrudgingly. 

A "snake doctor" caught sunning on a rock on the little hill behind our house when we went walking.

I love going on walks around our little farm taking photos of nature, although I'm no longer able to do that. I'm thankful for all the pictures and memories I've made over the years, and the rest of the film roll has some more great shots, which I'll try to share at some point.

This roll of film was like finding a long lost treasure that I didn't know I had, and there were also a couple of shots of me that long ago! Who knew?