The remainder of these photographs come from a couple of days spent sketching around the Gulf coast while trying to find the appropriate photographs for the story featured in the last two posts.  These pictures come from around New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish, and St. Bernard Parish.  The highlight of this bit of wandering was probably driving along the Mississippi outside of Venice and seeing the A Whale oil skimming ship rising well above he green round at the peak of the primary levee.  I’d seen it from a couple of Coast Guard aerial tours of the spill site several weeks earlier, but had no idea how large the vessel is.  It’s, um, well its name is appropriate.  It’s gigantic.

The remainder of these photographs come from a couple of days spent sketching around the Gulf coast while trying to find the appropriate photographs for the story featured in the last two posts.  These pictures come from around New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish, and St. Bernard Parish.  The highlight of this bit of wandering was ...