weather
fall garden show
Perfect weather for the fall garden show and the restoration of the Botanical Garden in City Park is beautiful…
a big moth… and a beautiful day
Ahhh… what a beautiful day. I love this time of year when it starts to cool off a bit. The last couple of days it has been in the low 80s and breezy, not as humid…
power out… again
Well, it looks like we are feeling some of the effects of Hurricane Ike’s feeder bands right now… we just lost power and Entergy is estimating it will be restored in the next 6 to 8 hours. Damn, this sucks… again. I am on my laptop’s battery power and switched to my GSM connection through AT&T. [...]
damage from Gustav
Here are some pictures of the damage to the garden after Hurricane Gustav… I have three trees that need to be removed and some superficial damage to the young oak tree.
The first victim is the crepe myrtle in the front yard at the end of the driveway. I have always had a love/hate relationship with [...]
protect our wetlands
A couple readers commented through blotanical and via email on a previous post that I made about not using cypress mulch.
Generally speaking, people that do not live in Louisiana just don’t realize how important it is to protect our wetlands. It isn’t a local issue… it is a national issue. Our wetlands serve as a natural barrier [...]
flooding in Monroe, LA
Here are some pictures of the bayou in Monroe, LA after the massive rainfall following Gustav that Jean from Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog mentioned in a comment on my previous post. There was some street flooding and comparing these pictures, you can see how high the water rose.
evacuation to Monroe, LA
As I am sure everyone that has a television knows, New Orleans was under mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Gustav last week. My main concern was the storm surge that they were predicting compromising our already damaged levees and causing mass flooding, which we didn’t get… thank God. As a whole, I commend the federal, state and [...]
mosquitoes
DHH Urges Residents to Protect Themselves from Gustav’s Mosquitoes
The aftermath of a hurricane seems to always create a hot bed for mosquitoes… needless to say I will smell like Deet for awhile.
preparing for the worst…
This is off topic for a gardening blog, but my nerves are on end right now as I am preparing to evacuate New Orleans tenatively on Monday (Labor Day), due to the projected path of Hurricane Gustav. I just watched the local news on Bob Breck and the hurricane models are in majority that we [...]
gustav heading for nawlins?
Hurricane Gustav is currently a tropical depression near Haiti, and it will enter the gulf tomorrow and be a major hurricane when it hits the Gulf Coast over Labor Day weekend. I have a bad feeling about this. I hope for New Orleans’ sake that this hurricane moves east, but it is so hard to tell [...]
