stripes

I've only once had a camera card get corrupted on me before I had time to download photos, and that was a card that recorded Alice and my first trip together to Italy, in 2006.  So there were pictures of Spoleto, maybe of Rome, certainly of Venice.  What's strange is that I printed out a handful - but if they were ever on a computer, the likelihood of my being able to find the right cables to open it up again is slender, and in any case, if they were ever on a computer, then I surely would have been able to find them when the card stopped functioning.  Etc.  Etc.  In any case, one of the photos I remember most clearly - and so was most sorry to have lost - was taken in Spoleto, and since it involved test patches of external paint, it was near abstract.  You can imagine how happy I was to find a comparable set of patches on a wall down our street today, and indeed this image is even more satisfying, because of the shadows.

There's also a tale here about one remembering images that one once framed in a camera viewfinder, even if the image itself was lost twenty years ago.