The Park management said this raised walkway is closed because the engineers said it is structurally unsafe. I won't tell them I walked the entire length of it every week for 5 months when I went to check on the birds in the bird sanctuary.
Today I gave a priest from Ohio a tour of some of the devasted areas and he was appalled that after six months so little had been done.
When I began this gallery I said it would be a history of Katrina as well as a personal journal; I guess today is personal.
Some friends and I were talking today about the quality of life in the New Orleans area. At first we were all anxious to get our houses back together and our gardens replanted and our lives in order. But, it is not happening. There are few places to go in the City as 80 per cent has been destroyed. If you go into the City you have to leave in daylight because most of the City streets and the Interstate are dark. Many of our friends have moved away and quite a few died in Katrina. So, we sit and talk and share our feelings and it helps alleviate the fears for the time being. That is until we go to find a place, a flower shop, a deli, a camera shop, a hairdresser, and realize it "ain't there no more." And, we hope that one day, somehow, we will find our way out of this maze and put the pieces back together. We know it will never be the same; it might even be better....and we hope, in our lifetime.