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Prompt: What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? Answer: I haven’t really kept track super well, but it’s either going to be His Girl Friday (1940) or It Happened One Night (1934). Basically, I can never have enough screwballs.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 2h

Sleepy Sheepies 😴 (iPhone 8 | RNI Technicolor 4 | 2019/06/11 | Toronto, ON)

Lamb sleeping on green grass as two sheep forage beside a wooden fence.

Lamb sleeping with its hind legs still standing.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 15h

Kathleen chose a more modest Halloween display this year 👻 (The lil’ ghosties and pumpkins are just too cute. Unfortunately, the cats agree and we’ll be chasing those things all over the apartment.)

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 15h

Joining in on the 9 albums thing. There were so many ways to try to do this since I'm always looking for and am being influenced (to some degree) by new music, but I chose the traditional route of albums I played a whole lot before leaving South Porcupine in 2000.

Three-by-three grid of albums showing, from the top left to right and going down by row:

(1) Live Through This, by Hole,
(2) Tidal, by Fiona Apple,
(3) Butch, by The Geraldine Fibbers,
(4) Portishead, by Portishead,
(5) Tigermilk by Belle and Sebastian,
(6) Breath From Another by Esthero,
(7) The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails,
(8) Blue Lines by Massive Attack (mostly for Unfinished Sympathy, which still tears me up under many circumstances), and
(9) Come On Die Young, by Mogwai.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 16h

Now that we're in the season, Camilla's favourite Halloween costume is back too. (She has a fetching collar for Christmas.)

Knitted "emotional support chicken" in white and pink yarn sporting a spooky black cape.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 05/10/2026

On This Day™️ in 2025: I took a little trip to the National Gallery on a sunny Sunday afternoon while Kathleen was with a friend at a Victorian hair art course. I took in the Erica Rutherford exhibit, which I found striking. EL | S.C. 50/1.4 | ORWO UN54 | D-96 | 2025/10/05 #BelieveInFilm

Elevated view over a walkway inside of the National Gallery of Canada. A series of banners hangs from the glass ceiling. A single person is visible in the distance.

Metal sculpture suspended in an atrium. A banner advertising the Sobey Art Award hangs above.

Geometric class atrium, as seen from below and inside.

Elevated view into an atrium area looking over tables and chairs. A single person is sitting at one of the tables.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 04/10/2026

Two Days, Squared Away Last Sunday it was delicious new-to-us food and drink (🇹🇹 Doubles! 🇯🇲 Sorrel!) and on Monday, a test roll provided me with a little evidence that the Yashica 635 *might* have healed itself. Or it might not have been a problem to begin with. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #BelieveInFilm

View through the front garden of a corner residence looking toward a home down the street.

Front facade of a Christian Science church from across the street.

Small bunny rabbit on the front lawn of a home.

Two payphones alongside a convenience store, as seen from across the street.

Those of us who live in Ottawa and use film cameras to make photos of pay phones have most definitely made photos of this pair. In my case, I live nearby, so I have dozens.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 03/10/2026

Another sunny Saturday! Since it's only one sunny day before ☁️, we're not yet going to go with slide, but instead Ortho! Otherwise? 1. Vote in the upcoming municipal election; 2. Get a nice Fall beverage (and snack) at Arlington 5; 3. See what's on offer at today's Retro & Antique Market.

Black Pentax K2 camera with two rolls of Ilford Ortho beside.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 03/10/2026

A Sunny Saturday in New Edinburgh (Part 2) Continuing on with last Saturday's adventure, after stopping in for a nice beverage, we continued our walk, taking in part of a neighbourhood art show and, of course, stopping in at Books on Beechwood. 📚 #BelieveInFilm

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 02/10/2026

Well then, happy Friday to us! An entire collection that seems designed for our specific taste in polish.

Six bottles of nail polish in various shades anchored to purple laying on a sheet of film strips.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 02/10/2026

On This Day™️ (too tired for the blogging) Just a little toodle 'round the neighbourhood. (Elan II | 50/1.8 STM | FP4+ | Ilfosol-3) #BelieveInFilm

Discarded electric range on the front lawn of an apartment.

Sign for a 1930s apartment named The Duncannon.

Pumpkins stacked up outside of a grocery store.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 01/10/2026

A lil' pushy-boo after a long day at work (that promises only another tomorrow) isn't a bad way to raise the anchor on today. (FP4+ +1⅔/EI400 DD-X 13m40s 23.4°C)

Two strips of black and white negative film drying in a bedroom window that needs cleaning. Perhaps in the Spring.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 30/09/2026

We will be going to Beechwood for today's observance. 🧡 Of course, I will still be bringing a camera with me. With heavy overcast and a contemplative mood on cemetery grounds, we're going with FP4+ to be pushed 1⅔, to 400.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 30/09/2026

A Sunny Saturday in New Edinburgh (Part 1) Since we're now well in to September, our personal compasses flip around a little and we become increasingly drawn eastward. For this past Saturday, this meant a lovely little walk through New Edinburgh. #BelieveInFilm

Canada geese in a V-formation flying in front of a castle-shaped hotel.

Utility pole and tall tree standing at an intersection.

Kathleen (out of focus, foreground) inspects plants outside of a condominium.

People with strollers outside of a very small, but also very popular cafe.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 29/09/2026

On This Day™️: Five Years Ago (Tuesdays are long days.) Kathleen and I were out and about on a nice Fall evening. Spotmatic | Super-Takumar 55/1.8 | Superia 800 (EI160) | Lab Dev & Scan | 2021/09/29 #BelieveInFilm

Beef loin dry aging in a refrigerator built into the street-level facade of a steak restaurant.

Red and orange maple leaves in a wet puddle on a tennis court.

Kathleen, a woman with long brown hair and an orange sweater standing beside a canal.

Pink asters in a garden hanging on at the end of the season.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 28/09/2026

🤔 Doesn't look too bad! I'll have time to scan it on Wednesday and will have a better sense then. (Flic Film Black, White, and Green for 5m22s at 25.3°C)

Black and white negative film hanging to dry in an apartment window.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 28/09/2026

Having let it sit in a cabinet for four years, I’ve been wondering if my Yashica 635 is going to behave. The shutter at 100 seemed sluggish when I set it aside, but playing with it this morning, 100 *seems* fine (?) now. I think after work I will sacrifice a roll of Potsdam to find out for sure!

Yashica 635 twin lens reflex camera sitting on a desk.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 27/09/2026

For my midweek roll, it was all about just using a camera, developing film, and sharing the results, whatever happens. That's how I try to combat the malaise I slip into here and there. I also wanted to see what would happen if I treated a roll of RPX 25 as Retro 80S. #BelieveInFilm

A man and a woman standing outside of a light rail station at an intersection waiting to cross the street.

Man in checked blazer with dry cleaning walks down a sidewalk away from the camera.

Pigeons outside of a grocery store in a fenced-in tree bed.

Pumpkins on display outside of a grocery store.

I love making photos of pumpkins in the fall, so this account will be posting many photos of pumpkins.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 26/09/2026

Today's the second anniversary of my learning to develop film. Sure, I bought the kit three years before that, but what matters is that I got around to it at all. I didn't make a great job of it, but it was good enough to encourage me to keep going. 🎞️ #BelieveInFilm

Box of discarded cassette tapes and a toaster outside of an apartment.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 26/09/2026

Overdone and Under-Conceived In which Charlotte, finding herself in photographic malaise, begins her usual process of working through it, comes home with an uninspired and over-exposed roll of a film she's not wild about, that she over-developed in a developer she's not wild about! #BelieveInFilm

Display of pumpkins outside of a grocery store.

Man sitting alone on a patio outside of a pub in the sun. He is enjoying a beer.

Roman Catholic Church in the afternoon sun.

The world's hungriest cat, a grey-and-white bicolour cat named Charlie, doing what he does best (eating quickly, making contented grizzling noises as he does so).

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 26/09/2026

An On This Day™️ because I haven't yet scanned and have one more to develop. F80 | 24-120 D | Sensia 100 | Lab Dev & Scan | 2021/09/25 #BelieveInFilm

Disused retail space, as seen from across a street.

View into the loading bay of a former industrial building. I think that's the back entry to a brewery (?)

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 25/09/2026

On These Days™️ Photos made on September 24, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. (1) Ilford Delta 3200 / EL + K 50/1.4 / Lab (2) Kodak Portra 160 / EL + Q 135/3.5 / Lab (3) Lomo Color Negative 800 / C220 + 8cm/2.8 / Lab (4) Fuji Velvia 100 (Exp. 2021/08) / C220 + 8cm/2.8 / Home #BelieveInFilm

Man at a barbecue cooking squid for a night market.

Home with a pink front door and coordinating flowers.

Green bin with avocado boxes stacked on top outside of an apartment.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 24/09/2026

The cones in question: (L - yes, my manicure was on week 2) vegan buckthorn orange; (R) vegan strawberry.

Two ice cream cones decorated to look like kitty cats.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 24/09/2026

One Saturday, Two Adventures (Part 2) Out second Saturday adventure saw us heading west instead of east, as we did in the morning. Taste of Wellington was okay, but the important part was that we had ice cream cones decorated to look like a kitty cat. #BelieveInFilm

View down a curved street looking toward a coffee roaster. A large number "33" stands above the door. An apartment tower rises in the background.

Cardboard outside of a gifty-decor-type shop.

People crowding on a sidewalk outside of a (nice) book store and (nice) Banh Mi shop (that has delicious vegan options so we go there), as seen from across the street.

Thrift store from the middle of an intersection.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 23/09/2026

His favourite part of the day. 🐈‍⬛🪥🦷

Charlie, a grey-and-white bicolour cat stands next to me while my partner Kathleen brushes his teeth.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 23/09/2026

It’s nice that I can see Kathleen today. I was beginning to forget. Fortunately, we have three days of visibility between us, so there are glimmers.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 23/09/2026

I didn’t get around to blog this morning, so here’s another older digital one. Winter morning on Danforth on the way to the Woodbine station. 📲 LG G4 💻 RNI Films Technicolor 4 📅 December 27, 2016 📍 Toronto, Ontario

Birds flying around the sky above buildings in a commercial area. A large number of them are perched on an aerial.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 23/09/2026

This is what he had (and it turns out you’d be about the same age ☺️). I think I’ve only heard of RPN, but never encountered it. I think I have scent memory for the late-80s soft vinyl buttons of my first calculator. It didn’t see much use since they were prohibited from school.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 23/09/2026

Some things are best enjoyed on a small phone screen. (iPhone XR | RNI Films Agfacolor XP 160 | Montréal, QC | June 21, 2022)

Woman talking on a phone while waiting for a northbound train in the Mont-Royal subway station in Montreal.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 22/09/2026

One Saturday, Two Adventures In which Kathleen and I were out and about twice on one Saturday. Look out world, we're not *always* that domestic! Only 99.5% of the time, really. 🙃 #BelieveInFilm

Concrete apartment rising behind a raised highway over a canal.

Apartment alongside the bank of a canal.

Corner coffee shop in an otherwise residential neighbourhood.

Office building looming over a residential neighbourhood. A frequent scene for me as it's another that I would have seen in the 1970s and 1980s geography textbooks we used in school.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 21/09/2026

Frankie's on Frank. I wonder when that closed.

Screen from the Transgender Forum CD-ROM showing friendly night clubs in Ottawa in 1999. Listings include Coral Reef on Nicholas, Frankies on Frank, ICON on Lisgar, the Lookout on York, and Market Station on George.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 21/09/2026

A Little Detour for a Little Addition Friday's dinner salad called for a little of chick'n. Since we're down to one grocery store carrying it, my post-work errands included a small detour. MDC's time for GP3+Mic-X was a little long, so next (and last) roll, this will be reduced. #BelieveInFilm

Back corner of a long-vacant 1920s administrative building, as seen from the other side of a street. The bottom three panes of a twelve-pane window at the top-right corner says "X O X" on them.

View through a surface parking lot, looking toward the white hut the little man sits in. A woman with a stroller passes on the adjacent sidewalk.

Painted sign for an art supply store named Wallack's, as seen from across the street.

Person on a bicycle at the side of a street waits for the light to change.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 20/09/2026

See a PCC, Post a PCC (iPhone 8 / June 2019 / Toronto, ON)

Tourist PCC street car on Bathurst Street, Toronto.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 20/09/2026

☺️💜 In a different life, I wrote a (far-too-)long thing on it, but you can see it in the aerials here! (L) 1958 & (R) 1965

Aerial photo of an apartment made in 1958 showing a full square building.

Aerial photo of the same apartment made in 1965 showing a half-sized rectangular building.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 20/09/2026

Charles in Charge (of my After-Work Route) Equal parts grey, white, and hungry, Charlie's need for both kibble *and* cans meant that Thursday's after-work walk was a heavy one. Once again, my movements were dictated by a 16-pound house cat. #BelieveInFilm

Dumpster outside of a storage shed at the rear of two apartments (behind, out of frame).

The phrase "tittysprinkles" written in marker on the exterior wall of an apartment with an interesting story.

(It was originally much larger, but when the road was widened in the 1960s, the owner was required to remove the back half of it to accommodate the widening. That part of Gladstone was originally closer to a lane way than the arterial planners in 1955 classified it as to facilitate traffic flow.)

Side of a little free library that says "Rue Frank St. loves you"

Wooden fence at the back of a parking lot.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 19/09/2026

We're just supposed to be all sun today, so with a few places to be, that will mean it's time for some PanF+! (unless the ☁️☁️☁️ roll in, then it changes)

Nikkormat EL camera with two rolls of Ilford PanF+ to the right.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 19/09/2026

Inspired. Not Wired. But Also Not Tired. This past Sunday, Kathleen and I went out 😱 On a work night 😱 The day before she was to start a new job 😱 What brought us out was a chilling to great music and art books! The perfect way to get us out of the house on a Sunday (early) evening. #BelieveInFilm

Worn tires stack up outside of a mechanics' garage, as seen from across the street.

Small yellow car parked at the side of a road.

Entry to a venue ("Centretown's Living Room!") named Fono.

Various citrus in a bowl and glasses at the edge of a bar. A glass of water and a wine menu are at the bottom of the frame.

(We didn't have wine, but I had a gin fizz and Kathleen a daiquiri.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 18/09/2026

On-This-Day™️ in 2025 was our last day in Halifax. Cloudy and humid, we brought my mom (who lives in Dartmouth) to a pair of museums and out for lunch. It wasn't a half bad way to spend our last day in town. ☺️ (EM | E 50/1.8 | XP2 Super (EI320) | Flic C-41 | 2025/09/18) #BelieveInFilm

View across a harbour looking toward a city. In this case, it's a view from Dartmouth waterfront looking toward Halifax.

Woman with long brown hair with a right sleeve tattoo listening to music, as seen from behind sitting on a passenger ferry.

One day when riding this particular ferry (or looking at photos I made while on it) my mind won't go directly to Joel Plaskett. Today is not that day.

View from inside an exhibit space inside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. I was relieved to find space with more coiled ropes, anchors, and things like that since the main space has far too many model boats.

Woman fishing from the Halifax waterfront. An island in visible to the right in the background.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 17/09/2026

Once again, it's pictures ☺️🎞️ Another one of those kitty food missions: an overcast afternoon with the Yashica A this time. (Acros II | Mic-X (1+3) | 15m35s at 24.3°C)

Black and white film drying in front of a window.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 17/09/2026

On-This-Day™️ Kathleen and I were in Lunenburg (NS) enjoying a lovely day. We mostly ended up buying books. Books! Books! Books! Only downside? Like many cute coastal towns, there were too many of us tourists there! (AE-1 | 50/1.8 | Ultramax | Flic C-41 | #BelieveInFilm)

Bright red buildings on the shore. One to the left says "ADAMS & KNICKLE LTD." and the one to the right says "LUNENBURG OUTFITTING CO."

Pan painting window trim outside of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, a red building. A fence with barbed wire runs through the frame.

Coffee shop in a town's commercial area.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 17/09/2026

Well, there we go. Sunday's roll is drying. (Acros II in Mic-X (1+3) for 15m at 24.75°C.)

Frames from a strip of black and white negative film hanging to dry in a shower.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 16/09/2026

Just when you think you've managed to get a grip...

Order from an email showing two packages of ID-11 film developer and four rolls of Limited Edition Delta 400. I don't plan to use ID-11 for this film, but have DD-X for it. I just needed some more as my standard 400 developer.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 16/09/2026

There’s a First (and a Last) Time for Everything This past Saturday, Kathleen and I went to Comic Con for the first time. Crowded, expensive, and with limited things that appealed, we quickly discovered once there that it's not really something we'd be repeating. Just not for us ☺️ #BelieveInFilm

Side door entrance to a ground-level apartment in the morning light.

Man holding a coffee passing in front of an optometrist's office. A party of three is being seated at a patio table of the diner across the street.

View looking up a staircase from a light rail station. At the top, some distance away, is a pair of apartment towers.

View outside of an out-of-the-way convention centre, which is host to a comic convention.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 16/09/2026

Since I haven't the energy to blog at the moment (one roll scanned, one to develop, no words written), he's an "around this time" from 2020. Kathleen and I took a walk around Britannia. It was practically like going out of town! 🙃 (FTn | -S 50/1.4 | ColorPlus | Lab Dev & Scan | Sep. 19, 2020)

View down a short beach looking toward an apartment.

Boarded up some that appears to have had a fire.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 16/09/2026

Another week, another Christmas movie.

Space outside a 1930s apartment done up to look like it’s winter for a movie being filmed.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 14/09/2026

Charlotte (not) in the Middle Repackaged Aviphot 80? Metered at 25? Developed in Rodinal? Sunny day? Midtones didn't have a chance. Since it's just repackaged Aviphot 80, I won't be doing *that* again with my next two rolls! #BelieveInFilm

Shopping carts outside of a grocery store.

Apartment on the other side of a raised highway.

Kathleen posing for a photo at an intersection.

Shadow of a civic address being cast against a curtain in the door of a shop.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 13/09/2026

Taking it Slow on a Saturday Morning (Part 2) Last Saturday morning the clouds rolled in, making it necessary to pause the PanF adventures. Fortunately, it cleared up after lunch. Unfortunately, I didn't feel so inspired, but didn't want to leave it in the camera waiting for sun. #BelieveInFilm

Kathleen laughing at an intersection as I kept making photos of her waiting at an intersection.

Six-plex apartment from the early 1960s, as seen across the yard of a home.

Two storey late-nineteenth century home.

Cosmos in the front garden of an apartment.

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Charlotte ♥ @lottiejoy.ca · 12/09/2026

Pearlescent purple raincloud earrings with raindrops and lightning bolts.

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