My husband and I took a picnic supper to Audubon Park last evening. While sitting in this part of Audubon Park across St. Charles Avenue from Tulane and Loyola Universities one would never know a hurricane had devastated New Orleans only six and one-half weeks ago. This part of the Park suffered wind damage but no water damage.
Normally, the area would be teeming with students on a Friday evening but the universities will not reopen for a while. Only blocks north of this area one finds brown grass and shrubs and waterlines 5 feet high on buildings.
This is truly an oasis and the swans knew it.
I fed them two loaves of French bread and I do believe Mamma Swan remembered me as she ate right out of my hand.