Photo Stick - The Scoop (my experience) - UPDATE

I'm a picture taker. My kids will attest. They fussed at one time, but now I just tell them, "There will be pictures." When the photos are arranged and organized, everybody says, "Let's see."

For Christmas, Rich gave me a wonderful photo capture device, just what I wanted. But when I started to work with the device (had two USB connections) it would not work on my computer and turned out to be a photo Saver, able to collect photos from my computer and phone. Nice - but it was a major flash drive or thumb drive. It did not contain the organizing software.

Packaging

Photo Stick

I researched and waited and then bit the bullet and purchased the Photo Stick with organization software.
The large memory photo stick afforded me well, because by the time the software had captured EVERY PHOTO, downloaded jpeg, photo of a document, photo from forever ago, it had stored over 55,000 photos. WHAT!!
Just press GO! and the device seeks, finds, and stores everything.

Photos appear like this.

Folders I created

 Here's the thing, though. It's up to me how the photos are organized. I name the folders and select the pictures that should be placed into the folder. Otherwise, the items remain arranged from newest to oldest or oldest to newest.
Imagine organizing 55,000 photos.

Yes, duplicates are removed.
But, there are many that look the same, but I took so many photos to get a good one. all are saved. I'd advise purging BEFORE allowing the device to work and certainly BEFORE organizing. I didn't because I did not want to look at 55,000 photos twice.

Another thing I did not realize is this: EVERYTHING is captured - that would include documents as photos. Also, the photos are loaded in in somewhat of a random order - phone, computer, documents as photos, downloads, scans, etc. That is part of the reason for 55,000 items.

I should have deleted thumbnails before I started creating folders and placing the pictures - I learned that.

I am now at a small number of photos yet to file - still over 400. Been focused on getting this project completed and during the Covid-19 Crisis/Pandemic - I have had the time.

I will have a place where all my photos are located and they will be grouped/organized.
I still have multiple flash drives and two external hard drives, one from work days in Bartlett.

Photos are important to me and I'll tell you this - I've worked to save them and keep them organized.

****GOOD NEWS - none of my photos are deleted from phone or computer.
****BAD NEWS - Bumped the extended Photo Stick going out to my office this morning. USB is catty-wompas and when straightened, it now will not "read." All that work. No one to scream at. Just frustration and lesson learned. Beware. Amount of work = one ooops = ???????????

A Basket Case

One of my hobbies when watching movies set in the 1930s and 1940s is observing the setting dynamics. Looking for relics in the background,,,watching for life-style tid-bits. Tons of vintage props and nostalgic screen doors with Coca-Cola push plates fascinated me in our Saturday night Netflix movie.

Vintage Market Basket

We watched Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as former Texas Rangers with Kathy Bates as the Texas governor who disbanded the Texas Rangers. These two were called into service for their superior skills and bravado. Costner and Harrelson starred in The Highwaymen, the untold, true story of how Hamer and Gault brought down Bonnie and Clyde.

Of special interest to me was the scene with Costner and his wife in which she and he unloaded purchases from her car. She had been driven to the market. Everything was carried in a woven basket.
"Hey, I have one of those," I said.

pine straw and cone basket

Mother had a propensity for baskets and kept several from "vintage days," collecting a few more - such as a small basket made entirely of pine straw.

I have laundry baskets, both deep and shallow.
The shallow laundry baskets were the ones Thomas and I used as sleds. We'd sit down in the basket and get a push from the sibling, making our bumpy run down the stairs at 134 Harrison Street in Camden. We'd wreck but didn't say a word.

flower/garden basket

flower/garden basket

I have flower and garden baskets. One is in the story "Lost," the initial story in House on Harrison Street. It is the basket that carried the pruning tools and the garden scissors and rested on the back seat in my grandmother's Buick. I was encouraged to go with Mother and Nana to tend the Gordon cemetery plots at Old Greenwood Cemetery. That's where I got lost...but that's another story.

Other baskets are put away, but I'll always stop and think about their origin. I have learned that Freeman Gatewood made willow baskets at some time in his later years.

I'll treasure baskets, as did my mother.