My friend Stephen is a native of New Orleans, although he hasn’t lived there since he finished his first graduate degree. Recently, however, he was asked to write the screen adaptation of Walker Percy’s novel The Moviegoer, which is set in New Orleans, so he decided to rent a house in the Garden District while he finishes the screenplay. Having never been to New Orleans I, of course, invited myself for a visit, from which I have just returned. I fell in love with the city. It has been knocked down pretty hard in the years since Katrina and still has a long way to go before it is fully recovered, but it is nonetheless still a beautiful, exotic city. Here are a couple of images from the trip.
Lake Pontchartrain late in the afternoon.
An egret nesting in Audubon Park.
The Oak Alley Plantation in Lutcher, Louisiana
The Hale Boggs Bridge over the Mississippi River near Luling, Louisiana
I don’t know which came first – the cemetery or the Dow Chemical St. Charles plant. Hahnville, Louisiana.
Stephen, hard at work.
