We chatted for about five minutes. It was near the end of his day and I didn’t want to delay his homecoming any longer. I bid him well and snapped a few more pictures. He returned to his tulips, picked two and walked toward his truck.

I spent ten minutes in an Oklahoma dust storm, thanks to the help of virtual reality. I sat on the mock front porch and placed the VR system on. A voice spoke the journal of a first hand account of a typical dust bowl storm. I’m not technologically savvy, and I was certain the jack rabbit I saw was going to jump in my lap.