On a dull, drizzly, day, I scanned the rest of the rediscovered negatives from December 2003. Therein lay the mystery.
Yesterday, I had put pictures of snow in Sherwood Forest into my iMac.
Today, I began with frost on leaves in our garden at Lindum House in Newark.
Every morning, at 6.30 a.m. or thereabouts, before dawn at that time of the year, I crept out through the garden ‘unwillingly to’
Newark Northgate Railway Station to join commuters on the down platform to Kings Cross. By the time the train was due to arrive on this particular day the sun was casting long shadows. Most people in this shot were looking in my direction for our conveyance. Like me, the man in the foreground had learned that one received an earlier alert by watching the signal. Those trains not stopping at the station travel at 120 m.p.h. Prospective passengers are warned to stand behind the yellow line in order to avoid being drawn into the path of the Intercity conveyance. I won’t describe what happens to those who ignore the precaution.
That December, Sam was not at home in Newark. He was out basking in the Canary Islands, where the boat he was to row across the Atlantic had been delivered, and he was becoming accustomed to both it and the ocean. So, how come, on the same roll of film, sandwiched between the images above and those of ‘Oddie Aloft’, were
Sam in Pacific Pete at La Gomera
and on the wide open sea?
I was not there. Had I lent my son the camera? Maybe he will elucidate.
This evening we enjoyed further portions of yesterday’s superb paprika pork, followed by Magnum ice creams. Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I finished the Costieres de Nimes.
The shots of the frost on the leaves are fantastic, Derrick!
Thank you, Jill
I was about to write too that the pics of the frozen leaves were amazing 🙂
Thank you, Geetha
Welcome Derrick 🙂
If they’re on the same roll of film it demonstrates how frugal we used to be – I still find myself taking time to frame shots instead of shooting with gay abandon as we can now afford to do.
Yes. Thanks, Mary
Someone who was there, watching Sam, took photos…Sam sent them to you, and they got tossed in with negatives of unrelated scenes…:-)
Clearly taken by someone who was there, but they start on the same strip as Newark Station, and finish on the same as Oddie up the tree. Thanks, Cynthia. It gets better – I chose the La Gomera one for the feature picture, and Facebook refused to put it on the link which has no picture. !!??
The gremlins are at work again…..someone or something is “possessed” 🙂
Perhaps a figment of my imagination
Spooky! On a par with Hamlet’s ghost…
Thanks, Bruce.
Oooh, I love a good mystery!!
Thanks, Pauline
Cameras are funny like that! 🙂
🙂 Thanks, Widdershins
That frosty green leaf reminds me of a lolly popular in my youth. I am also reminded of a time when 6.30am was my start to the working day. Hard on a night owl biorhythm. Thank goodness that part of life is behind me.
Me too, Gwen. Thank you
Beautiful frost and a great mystery. Traveling camera? Hmmm…
Thanks, Lisa
Beautiful leaf captures, Derrick! Love the frost leaves especially.
Many thanks, Amy
Wonderful shots of art created by frost Derrick – love it. Talk about teasing everyone with those gorgeous sea shots – warm sun, blue water with Sam getting ready for his adventure.
Many thanks, Mary
Magic. Plain and simple. And the photographs of the leaves with frost are dazzling. 🙂
Many thanks, Mary
Such pretty pictures of the nature. I always enjoy the anecdotes about your son’s adventures, too!
Many thanks, Cynthia G
I love it when I find a lost roll of film. have it developed and discover just what was on there!
Thanks, Dale. Me too