Continued Adventures In Digital SLR Photography, Travels, A New Job, and Katrina
Greetings, and welcome to the August 2005 Sampler essay, which chronologically follows from the “July 2005 Sampler” essay that I strongly suggest that you read or have read before trying to understand the content in this essay.
July ended with my flying via Chicago from Massachusetts to Michigan on a big trip, continued, after I returned home to Louisiana, with me starting a new job that changed my life, and ended with the wake of Hurricane Katrina, quite a tumultuous month!
The only pictures that I will share here, however, are pictures from the first week of August far from home. I did take some pictures of the results of Hurricane Katrina, but those are too personal to share here. All but the last picture shown in this post are from Michigan, which, 20 years later, as I type this, remains the only time that I have visited Michigan.
Here we go!
Monday, The 1st
We are at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.
I spent a week at this place.
Tuesday, The 2nd
All but the last picture in this essay is from The Henry Ford.
We did not take any road trips.
Wednesday, The 3rd
There is some neat railroad stuff here!
I’d return there just to see that.
Thursday, The 4th
We took some rides in some old automobiles.
What is this? Is this a Ford Model T?
Saturday, The 6th
I guess that I didn’t take any pictures on the 5th, the last day of the workshop. I have no memory of any of that.
Here I am flying home, at the Nashville International Airport in Nashville, Tennessee.
I knew that I was flying home to start a new job. I didn’t know that I was flying home to Hurricane Katrina, which would cause me to eventually lose that job.
That’s all for the pictures for this essay.
The New Job And Katrina
The new job started with so much hope! Hurricane Katrina dashed that hope.
In retrospect, I can see that it largely worked out well for me, but, at the time, I thought that I had been victim to a cruel cosmic joke, as I had taken a job to move to the big city, move to the metropolitan New Orleans area, right before the place was partially destroyed and irrevocably changed. I wish that I had had a year to get to know the place before that happened.
This was a very trying time, the scars from that experience have not fully gone away, and, if for no reason other than that the vulnerability remains, they never will.
The “September 2005 Sampler” essay will show indirect results of Katrina and this new job, as will subsequent sampler essays.
Stay tuned.
Merci.
Jim
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