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:gentle giants:

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Today is our last day in Florida.

I spent half my childhood here, and call it home more than any other place I have lived. Both our families are now here, as my MIL moved here almost two years ago. It makes for seeing family easy, as we no longer need to pick between Doug’s and mine.

Our last day here has been spent mostly on the road, but we got a great unexpected treat today. We got to see the manatee who take shelter from the cold weather in the canals around my sister’s house.

I’m too tired to write a lengthy post, so I will leave you with a photo of these gentle giants.

:just a little retro:

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I have always loved film.

Always.

My husband gave me a Nikon FM10 one year for my birthday, and I have a crate full of real photographs from our honeymoon, the kid’s births, their first years.

I finally put that camera down when I my current iPhone, but I feel it’s time to bring it back.

My son also has a love of photography, so we got him a Lomo’Instant camera, and he is excited to experiment with it. There is definitely a learning curve. He is used to using a digital camera, but there is so much fun stuff which can be done with film.

Film is not dead!

In fact he has been having so much fun playing with his that I got myself a Fuji Instax Mini 9 (mine’s blue!) while on our cruise over the holidays. It took that sweet little shot above from the balcony of our stateroom. The Instax film is much smaller than traditional Polaroid film, about the size of a credit card.

I’m looking forward to using it for journaling and documenting the kids’ homeschooling year.

Now I need to get some 35mm film for my Nikon too.