Arrival on the Bayou Teche at New Iberia

[DemoTex]

After two horrible days driving in my great new RAV-4 (had to change from my Tacoma truck at the last minute because of a bed-topper door problem, and leave my kayak behind), I finally arrived at New Iberia to start this photo mission. Had crawfish etouffee on the Bayou Teche tonight.

Spent last night in Montgomery, Alabama. Left there at 8 AM, and it was 80-degrees. As I passed the MGM airport, the skies darkened. There, the Alabama Air Guard static displays of an F-84, a RF-4, and a F-16 reminded me of our great DUer "trof," who was once a fighter pilot with the ANG before his airline career. But just west of MGM, the sky went black. The temp dropped 15-degrees in five miles. By the time I got to Selma, it was 46 in a cold, hard rain.

I hopped out of the car in Selma, and made some shots of the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge. I'll post those as soon as I pull them out of the camera. Not tonight.



Crawfish Etouffee in a Seedy Bar
New Iberia, Louisiana

[cry baby]

1. Travel safely! nt

[bullwinkle428]

2. K&R. The dog checking out your fantastic dinner is a nice touch!

[Tanuki]

3. The artist who created the iconic "Blue Dog" paintings was from New Iberia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rodrigue

"George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 – December 14, 2013) was an American artist originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes,[1] followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings[2] and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes.[3]His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees,[4]which are common to an area of French Louisianaknown as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings,[5] based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou, catapulted him to worldwide fame."....(more)

[canetoad]

4. I have a book of his work

Love it!

[DemoTex]

5. Thanks, Tanuki

I did not know that.