When Technology Fails

<sigh>

After a long trip we had lots of pictures to upload from various devices.  Disaster struck while uploading the ones from my phone (the ones I have been using on this blog)- all the pictures from January disappeared!  Gone from the phone, gone from the computer.  Oh no! 

 

I looked back at my January posts to the blog and I'm not sure whether it was helpful or not to see evidence of all the great photos I lost. On one hand, I feel grateful that at least my photos have been preserved in some form for the sake of storytelling.  On the other hand I am so upset I lost the original photos! You see the ones here on the blog were compressed for the blog and look kinda grainy, but the original photos were full size and beautiful!  I was hoping to print a few of the great ones like the picture of Pamy's family and the one of the girls feeding the seagulls, and I wanted to use some for my upcoming presentations about our trip. 

 

But now I have to decide- do I go through all the trouble of figuring out how to recover photos from the deleted files of my phone?  Or do I remember that 'Impermanence Surrounds Us' and let it go?

 

It's a tough decision....