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Tegan Wendland from WRKF and I drove down to Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish yesterday. Martin Environmental Solutions, America’s Wetland Trust and the United Houma Nation were all pitching in to try to save some of the rapidly … Continue reading
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With a tropical storm moving in from the Gulf, the marsh fire in New Orleans may soon be a thing of the past. Marsh fires are not uncommon, as counter-intuitive as this may seem. They are even more likely … Continue reading
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“Tucked away in the pine forests north of Covington, La. lies St. Joseph Abbey – a Benedictine monastery that houses 45 monks who have devoted their lives to prayer. In 2007, the monastery built a state-of-the art woodworking shop. … Continue reading
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—Original, straight out of the camera You can click on any of the images in the body of the post to scroll through and compare. Dappled light falls through a canopy of trees, tinting everything in a sunny, green … Continue reading
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I was hoping that digging up my copy of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars would provide me a nice little pivot point for today’s photograph. I recalled something about one of the caesars having a taste for green … Continue reading
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A portrait of Atchafalaya Basin Keeper, Dean Wilson, taken somewhere in the swamp west of Bayou Sorrel. This guy and this organization are doing the hard, detailed work of recording and preserving one of Louisiana’s greatest and most threatened … Continue reading
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There are many wondrous and strange things over at the LSU Vet School. Dogs with sore joints jogging on underwater treadmills. Doors behind which is contained a swimming pool full of research catfish. Dead cows being trundled around on … Continue reading
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I was awoken this morning around 3:45 by my neighbor re-stacking his apparently prodigious ladder collection. By 4:15 I had a cup of coffee in my hand and a plan in my head. I was already committed to traveling … Continue reading
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Finding something to take a photo of everyday is not always easy. Fortunately, bocce is always easy to photograph. As I was driving down Capital Heights on Sunday afternoon I noticed a group of four people having a few … Continue reading
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A woman was shot and killed a few doors around the corner from me on Friday morning. Anyone who follows my blog or other writing knows that I love this strange old neighborhood that I live it. Twelve years … Continue reading
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Writer and commentator Alex Cook interviewed Blues legend and the eponymous owner of Teddy’s Juke Joint for 89.3 WRKF, Public Radio. Check out his audio piece here. Great stuff. Teddy can tell a story. I went along to take … Continue reading
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[click image for larger view] “In the middle of a sugar cane field near Paincourtville, Louisiana, a 7,200′ exploratory oil and gas well blew last week. The well is gushing a brown mix of oil and gas over sixty feet … Continue reading