Happy Ending

On Saturday, I was walking about the grounds of the 2013 Ocrafolk Festival on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, USA, taking images of the workshops and concerts with my rather rare Tamron Adaptall-2 Model 65A SP 35-105mm f2.8 Lens and I hadn't noticed the rarer lens hood had fallen off and was missing. I searched everywhere I had just walked and could not locate my missing lens hood. I even searched the portapotti I had used earlier with both my cameras on my neck. The odd thing about the portapotti was the floor was not properly attached to the tank area and when entering bent down almost to the ground in the middle. I searched the portapotti as much as I could, but did not find my missing hood. I located the "Lost and Found" and described my lost lens hood and left my name and telephone number with them. I returned today to the "Lost and Found" and my hood had not been turned in. I searched again my route about the site and again searched the portapotti, this time with my flashlight and found the missing hood resting on the ground under the tank area. It was a bit tricky trying to get my hand under the tank area past the loose floor. I did manage to grab it and retrieve it from the dirt and moisture. I took it back to my room and cleaned it with warm water and a few drops of shampoo. When it was dry, I took this image. I need to come up with some sort of detachable lanyard to connect the hood to the lens so this won't happen again. For this image, I used my manual focus Tamron Adaptall-2 Model 27A SP 28-80mm f3.5-4.2 CF Macro Lens and Tamron Adaptall-2 Pentax K A Mount on Pentax K20D camera, hand held, manually focused, Shake Reduction set to 75mm focal length, ISO 400, f22, 1/180 sec, with fill-in flash from camera's built-in electronic flash. This is a full resolution Large JPEG and is Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) without any post-processing, editing, cropping, re-sizing, or adjustment.