Dec 16-18 2011 Louisiana

It was a rainy day. We went to Lafayette to see the Arcadian village, it is set up like the early life of the Cajuns, but they were closed. We drove across town and went to Vermillianville instead. It is sort of the same thing. It actually was better than what the other village looked like.

early Indian hut in Louisiana. Bamboo with a mixture of clay and Spanish moss as insulation inside and palmetto fronds on the roof. John observing a woman spinning cotton . The loom is 150 years old.

Fall color and Spanish moss by the bayou Teche. This gentleman was fiddling in the old school house. He is 88 and still going strong. The actors and artisans wore period costumes, demonstrated their arts and told us about life in the early years of the Arcadians.

a kitchen garden and the kitchen. The kitchen is separate from the house, too hot down here to cook in the house. A fence by the bayou Teche.

a house from the 1700’s, the doors are no longer square, bamboo

Satsumas. A Japanese mandarin orange like fruit that they grow here in Louisiana. Very sweet, loose peels. The vender told John you cam peel them while you are driving and on your cell phone!