Endless flowers / by Helen Hajnoczky

I have 40,000 photos saved on my computer. My computer will not let me save any more, but I must for a variety of reasons, most pressingly for our upcoming trip. I backed up the photos except all but 170 that failed (which ones?! Probably the most important ones! Argh) and then went through and deleted the obvious ones… that is, the hundred photos of various miso soups I’ve made. But I didn’t delete enough to empty my camera onto the computer. It’s interesting to see the moment years ago when I began taking more and more photos. But the issues I’m having now are the flora. I know deep down I’m never going through that backed up folder, so whatever I delete is going to be essentially gone. An obvious category would be the thousands of plant photos I have but I love them so. My desire to hang on to them means to me I should be doing something with them. But what should I do with so many flowers?

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