This is what greeted us this morning . . . fog, fog, and more fog . . .
These are actual digital, color photos unretouched. I did NOT change them to black and white. The fog seems to suck the color out of everything. Pretty amazing.
Check back here tonight . . . I feel a contest coming on!!!!!
On a chilly December day in 2014, freelance writer and author Kimberley Lovato traveled down the bayou as part of her south Louisiana tour. I didn’t know where she had already visited or where she planned to go, but those details mattered not because I was very excited that Houma Travel asked me to take her…
Remember a few weekends ago I played roving reporter down at three coastal communities southeast of my home bayou? Well, you can read the fruits of my labor in the Travel section of the Baton Rouge Advocate. I wrote the article sitting at the kitchen bar in a gorgeous camp while I was down there…
What do cypress trees, honky-tonks, acrylic paints, Cerebral Palsy, and the Vatican have in common? It’s not a what but a who. And that who is a self-made Cajun folk artist named Hank Holland.
But if you try sometime, you just might find you get what you need. Oh that these lyrics from a popular Rolling Stones song could become the mantra behind the commercial and recreational fishermen who share the inland and coastal waters of south Louisiana, the fate of which will soon be decided in the House vote for the 2012 State Master Plan for Coastal Restoration and Protection.
Ok, everyone. I’m home from slaving in The Cypress Cottage for a few hours and about to leave for a baseball scrimmage. I have just enough time to squeeze this contest in here and not make you wait until late tonight. I flatter myself in thinking that hundreds, nay thousands, of readers are just sitting…
Hello my dear friends! It’s almost the end of the year and I’m ending it with a blog post of the best new version of an old standard: Banana Pudding. However, this time, the recipe is not mine, it’s one Dotter threw together for our family gathering this past Saturday, and it was an absolute…
Stunning! Although, I would be afraid to be on water in those surrondings.
Spooky…
bottom photo looks like black liquid latex-
perfect crest of sun peeping through the foggy-like sky