It’s Saturday 29 October 2011, the day after the funeral and burial of Marie Anne Ory Dupont, around which I got some pictures and had some thought.
She died on October 23, and I read her obituary on the 26th.
So, on this day, the 29th, with life and death on my mind, I just photographed some of the most basic things at home.
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I do wish that I could have held on to my home, and I dearly miss it.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/014350-ff-RGB-w-orange-tree-home-29-October-2011.jpg)
I miss this orange tree.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/014351-ff-RGB-w-orange-tree-home-29-October-2011.jpg)
I appreciated my home, but I came to appreciate it more later.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/014352-RGB-w-bell-pepper-plant-home-29-October-2011.jpg)
I didn’t appreciate bell peppers as much back then.
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The Louisiana & Delta Railroad still had a few active CF7s back then.
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Here is the LDRR 1504 parked in Schriever. Ever since the UP-SP merger in 1996, it’s been relatively rare for CF7s to be in Schriever, as the place became the domain of rotating Mountain Laurel Railroad GP10s.
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I really do miss these supposedly ugly locomotives.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/014360-RGB-w-LDRR-1504-and-GATX-206718-Schriever-Louisiana-USA-29-October-2011.jpg)
It felt like the day after a funeral.
Jim