While riding throughout Lakeview in New Orleans this morning I marvelled at the flowers blooming in gardens that are still filled with debris in front of houses that are knocked off their foundations and are empty and abandoned. This street got a surge of 20 feet of water when the levees broke in the hurricane and some 10 feet of water sat here for 3 weeks. There is no human living here now.
The flowers (larkspur) reseeded and are brightening up the desolate areas. In this particular yard the flowers had put forth such effort I got my boots out of my car and cleaned up lots of the hurricane debris and weeds in the yard so the flowers could have a better environment.
A contractor's truck drove by the desolate area and a man yelled "Hey, lady, ya crazy?" And, I replied "Yeah, a bloomin' idiot." He stopped and we had a good laugh.
Made my day.