These little guys call our van their home. We found Basil, the frog, at Walmart several years ago. Kevin’s always loved the name, and it reminds of The Great Mouse Detective. (I don’t know why that fits here, but it does somehow.) We adopted Cecilia, the seal, at the Virginia Beach Aquarium last summer. She’s named for the Simon and Garfunkel song. :-)

I took three shots of Basil and Cecilia this afternoon from an almost identical angle with Urbian’s Retro Camera app for Droid. You can see the difference in color, film, and case, not to mention kilter. From left: the Xolaroid 2000, made in San Francisco; the .1976 USSR’s Little Orange Box (also shown at top); and the ’50s-era German Bärbl.