Back in 2000, we celebrated Thanksgiving in Florida. Back then, I was a beginning photographer compared to what I am now. You can sort of see it in what I photographed and what I left out. I didn't yet have enough of a camera kit to really take many pictures. Nowadays I carry enough media to take as many pictures as I want. Back then all I took with me was the camera and a couple of floppies. Not shown are the many pictures that just weren't good enough to bother looking at again.

In 2000 I hadn't yet realized how incredibly energy wasting flying was, so that's how I got there.

One reason these pictures are clunky is that the camera I was using then didn't have the resolution of the one I have now. Another is that I didn't know then a lot of the things I've figured out since about taking good pictures.

Then, as now, my sister's family shows up in a car they drove from their home. Then they lived in Virginia.

If I had done then what I do now, I would have taken a screen shot of some of the live coverage of the Presidential undecision that was all over cable. Instead of a picture all I have is a memory of how incredible it was that we still didn't know who the next President was going to be. I would also have taken pictures of some of the tourist stuff we did. At this point I don't remember what any of that was.