Arrggghh!

I am being punished by the digital dogs. I have taken about 60 pix onto my Sony memory stick and since I promised some garden pictures here, they are almost all of spring growth here in happy land. So I took the stick out of the camera and stuck it into the reader. My Mac says "What is this thing". I reboot. Same failure to recognize. So I put it back in the camera and it starts singing to me and displays format error !!!!
Even my photo recovery software won't help since I can't get anything to mount the stick. So no crocus for you.
I might still catch the last of the helibores and the daffy's haven't bloomed yet.
Rats !!!!