Higgledy-piggledy but oh so welcome, my photos are back! I haven't mentioned that my photos library has been marooned on an old backup drive since my old laptop died
in January, in part because I didn't know what the outcome would be. Past efforts to retrieve them all failed, and I was starting to fear the worst. A local tech place, laboring several days, was finally able to transfer the 97,000 (!) photo masters to a fresh new disk, though not the labels I'd added over the years. To make sense of them I have to work with date and context, like for this one, from
26.1.2015.