Tagging Photos

Every now and again I get a few minutes to myself. It's a rare enough occurrence that sometimes it takes me 2 1/2 minutes to realize those minutes are there, but it does happen.

This morning I had five minutes, and I decided the wisest use of my time would be to empty my memory card onto my computer, hoping that at some point in the future another five minutes would allow me the chance to actually view the photos, then later edit the photos, eventually share the photos, and maybe by the time my children sell my home, pilfer all of my stuff, and enroll me at the local retirement home...I'd eventually find five minutes to print those now vintage pictures for practical use.

I believe in setting long-term goals.

I plopped my memory card into the computer slot only to be greeted by this window.


Apparently my computer was giving me the option to tag these pictures so that they would be easier to find later on in the decade when I'd be given some more time to work with them. Excited by the chance that this might actually save some of my precious free time in the future, I thought long and hard about what tags would be best for this group of photos.

I had to use the one picture as a visual clue as to what moments I'd been trying to capture with my camera.

In this photo, we see my husband giving a long overdue trim to our son's hair. He's wearing his church softball t-shirt. A t-shirt that was accidentally ordered 2 sizes too small, and was further shrunk by his wife's superior laundry ability. In the background of the photo, there's a nice shot of our not-yet-clean electric grill, and a stack of stuff that needs to be filed.


And I still had 1 free minute to use the bathroom.

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