He’s no sissy

The main character in Tom Robbins’s novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is Sissy Hankshaw, who – with the help of her abnormally large thumbs – hitchhikes across America.

Unfortunately, the main character in the Evangeline Cemetery is physically unable to follow Sissy’s inspirational example.

Evangeline Cemetery
near Ville Platte, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

joubert

I cannot even think about this abandoned place without hearing “It’s you, Joubert!” in the style of style of Jean Valjean getting shouty with Javert in Les Misérables.

And, you’re welcome for putting that music in YOUR head: just another free service I provide.

St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

no loitering, but anyway, here’s a chair

They could NOT be more serious: no loitering is permitted. None. Not at all. Never. Don’t even THINK about it.

But, oh, here’s a chair, just in case…

Grand Coteau, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

right

Low, dark, serious clouds outside gave the inside of this church a particular glow that I liked very much.

St. Charles Borromeo was known for revolutionizing Catholic education, including the establishment of what became Sunday School. Additionally, he’s the patron saint of obesity, dieting, and stomach ailments. (That might come in handy if you encounter some boudin noir, which I mentioned a couple of days ago.)

St. Charles Borromeo Church
Grand Coteau, Louisiana

photographed 10.22.2017

frozen treats

It rained that day; as we drove we’d move in and out of the storm but it was either raining, about to rain, or just ending. It was the kind of rain that seemed to have been falling forever and would keep falling until the end of time. For someone an arid area, that stood out to me. For people in Port Barre, Louisiana, it was just a Sunday.

The clouds were catching up to us again, so we stopped only long enough to get a photo of this ice cream cone…

Bonus: maybe you know that I’ve been working on a series of monoprints from my ongoing Route 66 project; sometimes, just for fun, I do one that’s not Route 66. Like this one:

Port Barre, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017