New camera

[Dina Lerret]

On 6/22/06, KathyK <zanelupin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Your photos make me want to visit Australia again, and also wander
> my hometown to make my own photograph collection of places
> significant to me.  I already have an incredibly large pile of
> photos documenting my last three moves (because I am crazy) and
> various cars I've owned, but it would be great to capture more.
>
> Out of curiosity, is that how these places looked when you were
> there?  In my case, the three schools I attended all had additions
> added after I left.  Actually, this happened with my university as
> well.  I still find it difficult to accept the way my old high
> school now appears.  It just feels so wrong to me.  Taking photos of
> it now would feel like I was lying to myself in some way.  I'll have
> to comb through old pictures to see if I have any school photographs
> already, but I suspect not.
>
> Thanks for sharing!

Agreed, thanks for sharing!

I know all my schools have changed... Amusingly, for *Florida* and
*schools*, they've added more *glass* expansion structures.  Those
three aspects usually don't 'happily' co-exist for long. ;-)  Storm
and teen-proof are questionable.  Though, they sure look
architecturally 'purty' now and much bigger versus the practical
cement blocks when I attended.

Dunno about the rest of y'all but what I find 'wrong' about one change
in my high school are the rolling chainlink fences and locks securing
what used to be an 'open' campus.  I remember being able to stroll the
campus and get to my locker at all hours of the night, if needed.
Vandalism and other crimes probably forced the 'lockdown'.

The youthful illusion of 'safety' at school (evacuation zones use
school buildings) is... shattered, adding to the irony of placing
students in a 'glass house'. {g}

Dina