I decided that I needed to clean up my media library, so without testing it out I went in and willy nilly started deleting pictures.  And guess what.  They were deleted from my posts also, as the pictures were attached to the file in wordpress, and not to the file on my computer.  Which I had also deleted.

So, sorry gang.  Some of my earlier posts are going to have blanks were pictures used to be.  I am not going to go back and search for them again.  I am just going to have to let it be.

Poop.