Tag: louisiana
member name: Mariana T.
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July 15, 2009 08:42 AM EDT --
It is the dark brooding light of a Wednesday. Raining in sheets as pickup trucks splash through the Main Street puddles on their way out to the fields. I sit on the front porch not used . . .
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September 14, 2008 05:15 AM EDT --
I would like to say thank you to all of you who thought about me during these crazy hurricanes. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers very much. I also want to thank everyone . . .
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October 03, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
Cloud song entertained me today. I rode around beneath a sky filled with busting white fluffs. The sugar cane looks beautiful despite high winds from recent hurricanes. Soon, it wil . . .
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June 10, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
Good Morning Yall. <I know there's a whatchamacallit in there somewhere but to me - yall is a word. Thank you for all the comments in my arrival note. That was last night. . . .
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November 20, 2007 10:01 PM EST --
Many folks have visited Louisiana especially New Orleans. It is one of my favorite cities and I've had many good times in the French Quarter, Garden District, and a few other areas. Since . . .
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January 05, 2008 03:49 PM EST --
Gracious Good Morning on this lovely first Saturday in January. I'm hoping that when folks read the above title, they'll be inspired to write about an experience, . . .
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April 19, 2008 03:36 PM EDT --
Dear folks, as many of you know, I grew up near the Atchafalaya Basin in Southwestern Louisiana. My family home is in Franklin, La., a small town along the Bayou Teche. Neither . . .
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August 19, 2007 09:37 AM EDT --
A gracious good morning my friends. This early morning while feeding my cats, I looked towards the cemetery and saw a burnt orange ball rising. It was that wondrous old Hannah - what they used . . .
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November 18, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
When I was down home in Louisiana, I was digging in one of my dresser drawers and came across an envelope with the return address of Vineland, New Jersey. I thought about it half a minute. . . .
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July 20, 2008 11:37 AM EDT --
Greetings from Bayouland. Yesterday, I decided to celebrate my day by going to a friend's cottage in a Bayou cul-du-sac near Belle River on the other side of Pierre Part. Here's . . .
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August 02, 2008 11:48 PM EDT --
It is morning. It is evening. I am sitting on the front porch. Here I am behind the reincarnated Mimosa tree. The mother tree died when mama did but the root still contained . . .
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August 13, 2008 05:15 PM EDT --
Last night the bull frog was extra loud. His primordial throat bellowed out a baritone catapulting over the granite tomb of Rudy Frere, crawled through the wet Johnson grass, waded through . . .
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August 20, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
The years have passed way too fast. In between the 60's and today, I have been many pictures, many places and many personalities. We all have. Those of us who are lucky enough to . . .
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December 04, 2009 03:29 PM EST --
This is a picture of mama and me at the Festival de Barbue down in Franklin, La. on the banks of the Bayou Teche. I grew up down there. Barbue means catfish . . .
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November 25, 2007 01:19 PM EST --
I played clarinet from sixth grade until I graduated from high school. I do not know what I was thinking when I asked my father to buy me a clarinet. I was never musically inclined . . .
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December 04, 2008 11:50 PM EST --
Dear Folks - I try to do what I can to help innocent animals. I came across this article in www.care2.com an organization that is only a click away. I have learned so much through . . .
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January 12, 2009 02:24 PM EST --
Hi Folks. I'm from the heart of Cajun Country, Franklin, La. It was settled by the English but many of the older folks still speak a French patois. Here's a shot of some friends . . .
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June 19, 2007 09:34 PM EDT --
Last Sunday. She walked into Mr. Medric's store. She was coal black. Her dress was as red as her lipstick. She wore a big purple hat. That's what Octavia said. . . .
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June 06, 2006 10:56 AM EDT --
I'm down here on Bayou Teche now enjoying those first fresh summer days of June. It's been a delight to sit on the porch and let the green seep into my pores. I'm thinking back . . .
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June 24, 2006 09:44 PM EDT --
It's Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody - Got some money cause I just got paid - oh how I wish someone would love me, I'm in an awful way!
Greetings out there on this Saturday night. . . .
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