I have many pictures of places we've visited, and of course, friends and family.
I have pictures of my projects.
I have pictures of my paintings. But I don't have pictures of all my paintings, because of these reasons.
1. I forgot to take a picture of it before it was sold. Dumb.
2. I accidentally deleted my picture after the picture was sold. Dumber.
3. My computer crashed and I lost everything on it. Dammit!
Uh-Oh...I just broke my bad language rule. But, if you can't say a bad word when your computer crashes, just when CAN you say one?
There's not much I can do about the first two.
Now, I know there's lots of gidgets and gadgets available for saving important files from your computer and preventing such losses. But I don't have them. What I do have and should be much more diligent in using, is the on-line photo storage available through many places such as Kodak, Costco, Picasa, Snapfish, etc.
Even if your computer does crash, you could use any computer to access your photos and get them back.
When our family lost almost everything in a fire, the thing that hurt the most was the loss of years' worth of precious photos.
Now I'm not going to get all crazy and start making New Year's resolutions...UGH!....but, I do think I'm going to make an effort to get all my pictures saved to one of those good on-line sources.
'Cause, manohman, I'd hate to lose this picture!
That's my mom and my brother after we'd climbed up a jumble of boulders along a creek in Southeastern Arizona. What a fun day that was! My mom was no spring chicken at the time but she wasn't gonna let anything stop her from getting to the top!
Then, there's this one of grandson, Michael, when he got his first glimpse of The Grand Canyon.
It's obvious that he didn't believe what his eyes were seeing. The Grand Canyon will do that to you.
And what a shame it would be if this precious picture of my maternal grandparents was allowed to disintegrate!
Or this one, of me cleaning the summer kitchen on one of my visits to my Navajo 'family.'
Lordy! I look big as a barn!
And last, but not least...what would I do if I couldn't look at this face anytime I want to!
I am so GRATEFUL for these photographic memories.
I think I'll work a little harder to get them all in a safe place.
