I love these stone sculptures created by people on the shore @Shonie Hutter. I see them quite often on Lake Michigan’s shores. I have a photo somewhere of some. I’ll have to go look.
I’ve got them on a couple of laptops/tablets, not to mention a separate hard drive. My laptops do sort them chronologically, as long as I remember the year…
I try to sort photos into folders as I go - one for local days out, others for holidays away. Then renaming each photo so it shows specific location after the date.
I admire the way those stones are carefully balanced and withstand the tide Thanks for finding and sharing the one from Your Canadian Lake @Katherine Bond
I'd suggest a 1 terabyte portable drive plus a second back up on however many pen drives you need to buy (depending on size). Don't rely on just one drive – these things can fail.
Good advice. I’ve gotten spoiled sending photos from one Apple device to another and then I don’t remember which one it ended up on. A portable drive could solve that.
I am considering the consolidation and indexing of about thirty years of digital images from about twenty external USB disks. Procrastination and all that...
Not sure I can blame it on chaos @Katherine Bond. It has been a long time since I saw the stacked rocks at Bodega Bay. I'm having a difficult time talking myself into my walk. 😒
Sad to say there are some walks & trails I have taken in the past that would not be possible now. I don't like it! Learn to accept it but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
Sometimes they are trail markers. Sometimes they are there "just because". You may want to look at this about cairns. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehistory, they were raised as markers, as memorials and as burial monuments (some of which contained chambers). In the modern era, cairns are often raised as landmarks, especially to mark the summits of mountains. Cairns are also used as trail markers. They vary in size from small stone markers to entire artificial hills, and in complexity from loose conical rock piles to elaborate megalithic structures. Cairns may be painted or otherwise decorated, whether for increased visibility or for religious reasons.
I've seen reference to persons who claim to practice shamanism piling up small ones for reasons I cannot, now, remember. I suspect, most on the shore, are for the fun of it, by people who do not think of them as cairns.
Some of the more complex ones are such a feat of balance and I get a lot of pleasure when I come across them. I imagine that mindfulness that went into it. Just because is so powerfully fully of imagination. Thanks for your rock sculptures Brian @Brian Fitzgerald and yes there is some dismay for me when I can no longer move over tricky ground. I am working on accepting it too @Donna McClure and I agree I don't have to like it but glad mostly that I was once able to do it @Katherine Bond ((xx))
So glad I was able to do so many things @Shonie Hutter. I had my days of athletic climbing and scrambling over rocks and my memories. It was enough. I’m glad now that I can do everyday things like soodling through botanical gardens or down to the river to watch it flow by.
I suspect as you said @Katherine Bond, some are just because. The ones I saw at Yosemite were on a trail so no need to mark. They do take some balancing @Shonie Hutter. Did you see the ones I posted that were by Bodega Bay? I'm just starting to look at messages. @Simon Ashcroft I would have to agree with you.
I have little trouble with Apple kit. I upgraded my iPhone today without incident. I recently got a mac mini with the m4 processor. It is pretty snappy and I've also installed several Linux VMs, mostly arm64 and one emulated amd64.
@Shonie Hutter VM I take to mean virtual machine – presumably, Mr Fitzgerald would have an icon on his Windows or iOS screen which, when clicked, calls up a Linux operating system running inside Window or iOS.
The rest, (arm & amd) I take to refer to the type of processor built into the computer.
That's a pretty good summary @Simon Ashcroft. Fortunately, no MS Windows products are being used on any systems here. I've not had to use MS Windows personally since I retired. Yay!!!
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in reply to Shonie Hutter • • •Absolutely true. Won’t make me do it, but absolutely true.
I think I had to be so organized my whole life that I have Retirement Stubbornness, a not very rare disease when you get out of harness.
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man-made pile of stones or burial monument
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in reply to Shonie Hutter • • •They do take some balancing @Shonie Hutter. Did you see the ones I posted that were by Bodega Bay? I'm just starting to look at messages.
@Simon Ashcroft I would have to agree with you.
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Clear as muddy stuff...
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in reply to Shonie Hutter • • •Which is why when I retired I became an Apple girl. Wrestling with MS on my many, many computers was enough.
In general, I do like my Apple products, but reserve the right to complain.
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