How Dumb Can You Get?

Once in a while I do something that is so dumb I even surprise myself.  Today was one of those days.  A friend and I went to Catoctin Orchard north of Frederick. The object was to take photos of the pumpkin pyramid at the orchard and to try a restaurant my friends like.  When I got home and downloaded the photos, I discovered to my great disgust that I had inadvertently turned on the date/time stamp when I was looking for some other control in the new camera, and I have this orange honking date on every picture.  There's no turning it off.  Believe me, I tried, and I researched it.  The only way to deal with it is to crop it out or painstakingly clone it out!  Fortunately these shots are just for fun and not some vital record of a family function or part of a photo club challenge shoot.  All I can say is that one must be very careful playing with settings on a touch-sensitive camera like my new Canon.  Otherwise the camera may do things you REALLY don't want it to do.  On the first outing with this camera, it kept zooming in and out like a thing possessed.  I finally got exasperated and went into the "Tools" and other settings area and discovered it came pre-set with a desire to find and focus on a face.  I was taking scenery.  It was not amused.  That feature got turned off rather quickly and things got a lot less bizarre.

Here are a couple of shots that amused me enough to rescue them.  I have no idea who the children are.  They are from a school group that was touring the orchard.