Gone with the Wind

 Waiting for Ida to hit.  It's supposed to be the strongest hurricane to hit New Orleans in centuries.  And it's on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  This is what happened at my house last year during Hurricane Laura, which wasn't nearly as bad.

Well over $100 thousand dollars worth of damage and six months living at the B&B.  Here's the tree that fell and, unfortunately, there's an even larger one right next to it.  Both in my neighbor's yard.

Hold on to your hats, folks.  It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Planting Trees

My father planted these oak and pecan trees in 1973.  He bought 425 acres, built a lake on it, a house on it and lined the drive with oaks and dotted the fields with pecan trees, each bearing a birdhouse.  It's a hopeful thing to do, to plant a tree you know you won't see at its peak.  These trees (the oaks, anyway) will, hopefully, be here 300 years from now, majestic and beautiful. In that way, he left the world a better place than he found it.  One of many things he did.

The front gate