Today, I had occasion to travel from Eunice to Crowley to Iota and back to Eunice (Louisiana, that is). I enjoy driving around Southwest Louisiana in the spring. It’s amazing how a landscape so topographically featureless can be so enchanting, but it really is.
The dude above is crawfishing in a flooded field. In this area this time of year, between the flooded rice fields and the flooded crawfish ponds, a traveler could practically get from point to point by flat-bottomed boat as well as the highway. In places, as far as the eye can see, the landscape spreads away in watery fields confined and subdivided by short levees and terraces.
But what I like best of all about spring on the Cajun prairie?
Spring is best, because spring green is the greenest green.
Credit for the Cajun prairie snapshots above goes to the Zydeco Cajun Byway website.
David, you are giving me hope that spring may come. We had near 80 degree temps earlier in the week, but school was closed early today due to then winter weather. We have about 6 inches of snow and sleet on the ground and it is still falling in NE Pennsylvania.
Thanks for the note, Donna. Snow and sleet, huh? We haven’t had a snow to cover the ground in these parts in almost 20 years! Even along the Gulf Coast, such extreme rarity is a little unusual. As much as I enjoy the spring green these days, I have to confess a two or three inch snow would be a happy sight in South Louisiana!
Hi David,
I’ve added your blog to my bloglines and I’m loving your mixture of photos and writing. I’m doing that myself on my word count journal. Cool!
Bonnie
Here’s my blog:http://blk1.edublogs.org/ and my word count journal with photos: http://wordcountjournal.com/users/151/journals/312
and our digital storytelling blog if you’re interested:http://techstories.edublogs.org/
I’ve become such a blogging geek since Tech Matters.
I love getting the comments back, don’t you?
Bonnie
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