Adventures with Diana Mini

Last month, I spent Labor Day weekend with my dear friend Erin (formerly of the blog Ip & Audrey, she now uses Tumblr to post bits about writing and journalism). I brought my Diana Mini along for the ride this time. Here's a looksie into what we saw and did:

On Saturday, we took the T into Cambridge to stroll around and stop into stores we couldn't afford (think: Anthropologie and the Japanese import store selling Totoro things). We also savored our first pumpkin spice lattes of the season at Peet's. So good. In fact, it was the best I've had. A scrumptious Indian dinner followed. Samosas and dosas and Aloo Patter, oh my! Silly me forgot to adjust the settings on my the camera while down in the Harvard Square T station. These were the only salvageable pictures.

Sunday afternoon we skipped over to Ikea just for the fun of it. I had never been, so there was lots of oohing and ahhing on my part. Having lunch there was a must. After sitting down with my plate of Swedish meatballs, I pulled out Diana Mini ready to document the experience. The woman sitting at the next table eyed me suspiciously, thus increasing my nerves and decreasing my ability to center the shot. "Why yes, strange woman, I AM taking a photo of my food with a toy camera. What of it?"

Monday morning, before Erin headed into work and before I hit the road, we took a little walk (it's tradition) along the waterfront in downtown Plymouth. If you look closely in the right photo above you can see the masts of the Mayflower II. I climbed aboard the replica ship as a little girl, but haven't been on it during any of my last seven visits to Plymouth. Maybe next time!

Camera: Diana Mini
Film: Fujifilm 200

Smaller images were shared for the purpose of posting them side-by-side (hopefully they appear that way on your screens!). Larger versions of these photos can be seen by visiting my Flickr.