Just a few pics from a couple weekend overnighters this month. Fall hasn't quite hit when these were taken, but color is popping out everywhere now.
Lake Cheoh and Lake Calderwood below Fontana in NC
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now that looks like what I grew up with.
Nice water and nice boat too. Where were you? and where were you going? Looks like your dressed for a parade or something
Nice water and nice boat too. Where were you? and where were you going? Looks like your dressed for a parade or something
We're in St. Martinville, the jumping off place for the first cajun settlers arriving from Canada. Remember the Evangeline oak?
According Longfellow's poem (evangeline) it's where Emaline LaBiche waited in vain for her lover Gabriel
Anyway the folks in St. Martinville have an Acadian Festival every year celebrating the arrival of the first cajuns and i was lucky enough to get to paddle the queen - who is representing Emaline - to the oak tree.
The boat, by the way, is a Creole rowing skiff
The original design is likely European, following the Acadians to Canada and then to Louisiana. It's unique in that you row facing forward- cajuns like to see where they're going not where they've been. It was the station wagon of its time. If someone had to go to town they took the whole family because the trip might last longer than one day. If you had a large family, you'd build one four feet longer and add another rowing station so the oldest child could help you paddle
According Longfellow's poem (evangeline) it's where Emaline LaBiche waited in vain for her lover Gabriel
Anyway the folks in St. Martinville have an Acadian Festival every year celebrating the arrival of the first cajuns and i was lucky enough to get to paddle the queen - who is representing Emaline - to the oak tree.
The boat, by the way, is a Creole rowing skiff
The original design is likely European, following the Acadians to Canada and then to Louisiana. It's unique in that you row facing forward- cajuns like to see where they're going not where they've been. It was the station wagon of its time. If someone had to go to town they took the whole family because the trip might last longer than one day. If you had a large family, you'd build one four feet longer and add another rowing station so the oldest child could help you paddle
Nice boat
Thats a very nice boat. I also have spent several Boucheries drinking a few cold ones and enjoying some great music near that tree. The Mardi Gras festivities there used to be my favorite. Thanks for posting
Thats a very nice boat. I also have spent several Boucheries drinking a few cold ones and enjoying some great music near that tree. The Mardi Gras festivities there used to be my favorite. Thanks for posting
We are fortunate to live in a land of outdoor beauty. Scenery so big it reshapes your thinking is available all over. Except, of course, in cities.
The Cathedral of the Great Outdoors is inspiring.
The Cathedral of the Great Outdoors is inspiring.
Ya'll missed Mac 'n Wynelle by a week. They went back ta visit them trees agin. Ya'll missed us by a day. We headed home a day early cuz of the snow.
Yeah.....Mac wuz tellin' bout the Neverglades Expedishun when ya'll run the tide backwards. He sez oldyaker got him drunk. Sez he never got drunk before 'er since.....that oldyaker iz a bad influence, but a good pal. :roll: I felt like the fishin' law, not sho when Mac iz shootin' straight 'er makin' it up az he goes. :mrgreen:
Well, he's right about Yakus Despondicus being a bad influence. Before I met him, I was a numbah wan cherry boy. Now, I'm jest a numbah ten skivvy honcho.
The sad fate of man.
The sad fate of man.