Cypress Trees
South Louisiana
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Hello friend
a greeting from us.
Wolfgang
That photograph reminds me so much of L’Acadie — the Acadian settlement near Wolfville, Nova Scotia. At the historical site, there is a line of weeping willows that are old and twisted and the ground-meeting branches touch the green earth in front of a wooden rail fence with the green of grass in front and the green of traditional crops and marsh grass behind. The willows are much lower, the branches more twisted (some say the trees predate the explusion of 1757 by at least 100 years).
The picture transported me — we used to rent a tiny house in an apple orchard about a mile down the train tracks, longer if you walked along the trails on top of the dykes to the site. There is a replica of the church that was burnt by the British, a statue of the mythological Evangeline, and a bust of Woodsworth who created her. The bust looks just like my dad did!
Sorry to go on so, but the picture is so evocative and of course, many of the Acadians walked to Louisana and became the area’s Cajuns.
These magnificent cypress trees, draped in Spanish moss, are the ultimate summer idyll-ing spot of my dreams, becca!
The cypress trees just amazed me when I drove through Louisiana. Beautiful!
I grew up there, so every time I go home, they are the elders who welcome me home and I love them!!! No two seem alike! I never tire of them!!
Lovely green !!!
Thank you!