I went outside between rainstorms and took pictures, or so I thought, of the now-blooming lilacs. Later, I took pictures of my in-house plants and finally, pictures of a really pretty lady Cardinal and the new hanging plants Owen bought me for Mother’s day. I used two cameras, one of them twice.

The lilac pictures were first. I took maybe a couple of dozen pictures. I then removed the 32GB card from the OMD-EM1-M2 — the card that contained the lilac pictures and put it on the table, label up. I put in a 16GB card, then checked to see if the battery was still okay. It was. I picked up the OMD-EM10-M3 with the macro on it and took pictures of the new deck flowers, then came inside and took more pictures of the still-blooming orchids. I took the card out of that camera — it was another 32GB — and put it on top of the one that was already there and replaced it with another 32GB card.

So now I have two 32GB cards, one atop the other, but I noticed a really beautiful female cardinal out on the railing, so I grabbed the OMD-EM1-M2 because it has the 100-300 lens, the only good lens I’ve got that will “see” the bird and the lilacs. It’s a great lens. I took the 16GB card out, put it on top of the other two cards, and put another 32GB card back into the OMD-EM1-M2. I had to go make dinner, so I put the three cards in my back pocket. For later.

A few hours later, having never gotten to the computer, I finally sat down. I took the three cards out of my pocket. I put one card in the reader, but I had to get up again, so I left two of the cards in the dish where I put little things I don’t want to lose. Like SD Cards.

So. Three cards. One in the reader, two in the dish.

I finished making supper. Eating supper. Finally, I had the time to take a look at the pictures.

The cardinal was lovely and mostly in focus. The deck and indoor flowers looked good. The third SD Card — which was supposed to have lilacs — was blank. Did I accidentally delete those pictures while deleting other old pictures? I didn’t think I did. One way or the other, that blank card was supposed to be full of lilacs and wasn’t.

So I ask you, what happened to the lilacs? This post was supposed to be lilacs. If it doesn’t rain all day tomorrow, I might try again. I’ll probably find I put the card in the card container and put the blank one with the other cards. Unless I deleted them.

Take your best guess.

NOW, About AI …

AI didn’t pick up on the difference between a male – red – cardinal and the female who is taupe/gray and red or orange with a deep orange/red beak or knew the right size for an SD card. They got the message better yesterday.Also, AI has NO sense of humor or irony. It quite literally cannot take a joke.

Interesting stuff, AI. Sometimes, the magic works. Sometimes, it doesn’t.

Categories: #Flowers, #Photography, Cameras, Humor, Technology

Tags: #Photography, humor, Losing stuff, Marilyn Armstrong