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If you carefully read your tattered copy of the Army Engineers 1958 report on proposed improvements to Bayou Carlin you will begin to get a glimpse of why folks in Delcambre began to worry this time of year about big storms in the Gulf but kind of liked little ones.
You will recall that the bayou, sometimes called the Delcambre Canal, begins at Lake Peigneur and eventually reaches the Gulf. The report deals with a proposal to create a “harbor of refuge” at Delcambre that could accommodate up to 400 shrimp boats.

Much frustration results when a person tries to be someone who they are not. When this happens a number of factors are at play. Pressure to conform to the expectations of others, the desire for acceptance, and the yearning to emulate other’s lifestyles are some of them.
You are a unique individual. No one else is exactly like you. You have aptitudes, abilities, desires, and a personality unlike anyone else’s. You need to recognize and be who you are.

A summer-long ballet begins in April when hummingbirds return to south Louisiana.
The naturalist and artist John James Audubon called them “glittering fragments of rainbows.” The poet D. H. Lawrence observed, “It is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness to mock all description.” The “flower kissers,” as Brazilians call them, were considered gifts from the gods by Native Americans.