Last Taste of Summer

As you all know, I lost our camera during the Thunder Bay portion of our American trip this summer. It wasn’t even “our” camera: it was a camera Lisa had loaned me when I was in San Francisco in December. I had lost it somewhere between our dinner at the steakhouse and our hotel, which was directly across the street. (There had been a lot of wine with dinner.)

Well, it turns out I hadn’t technically lost the camera after all. It just somehow got itself kicked under the bed or something. The hotel staff eventually found it (weeks afterwards), reviewed the pictures, and recognized Morfar, who had been a regular guest for weeks at a time. They got in touch and got him the camera, and he brought it with him on his current visit. And I was surprised to find that in addition to the cool video I had taken of the factory itself (which is already well into the editing process and has been previewed by the immediate Danish family), there were quite a few other photos of interest… although the majority of pictures — literally dozens, possibly more than 100 — bore the unmistakable aesthetic imprimature of Maddie Marie Kammer Nagan.

Anyway, here are fourteen I thought worth including.

First, a nice shot from the deck of Nana & PopPop’s house.

Second, Molli Malou melting into her mother’s arms the night of her birthday (after the fireworks).

Not sure when the next one was taken, but it’s so similar to one I took of Molli Malou at about the same age — and, I think, in the same dress — that I had to include it.

Best bird shot of them all:

Toronto as seen from the airport.

The great butte of Thunder Bay. The picture doesn’t do it justice. After eight years of life on the Danish billiard table, it was just supremely majestic to me.

I see in the picture below the text is a little fuzzy, but I love Thunder Bay’s motto: “Superior by Nature.” (Thunder Bay is on Lake Superior.)

Father and daughter at the factory entrance.

The machine room, just a small sideroom off the main factory floor.

Trine wears a hardhat so well!

This is what you see of the factory from the highway (it’s not even the building on the right, which is some other company — it’s the building waaaaay back):

This was the last picture Morfar, Trine and I could remember my having taken: it was as we were leaving his apartment, and we all remembered my taking it because I said, “I just want a picture of the most inappropriate housing for Gert I’ve ever seen.”

(The building mostly rents to students, since the university is around the corner.)