Hello Friends, Life is slowly getting back to normal (but forever different) here in Mankato now that I am back to work. Here are a couple of my longest clients. Jodan (the brunette) has been coming to me since she was about 3 and her younger sister Sadie has been photographed by me since she was born. We always have fun, they are super polite little girls! Thanks Joanne for the visit!
I made it home from New Orleans very late on Saturday night. The flight home was pretty nasty, but we made it! It was a big adjustment when I got out of the airport and it was so cold compared to the temps I had been used to down south (100-120 heat indexes)
I haven’t wrote an update yet because I’ve been trying to find a way to talk about it. The devastation STILL in New Orleans is surreal, it looks like a tornado went through a week ago. If you get the chance to go down south(and I highly recommend it) you’ll see what I mean. No matter what status, background, lifestyle, religion or way of life….everyone was affected, everyone still is.
There was a lot of waiting. Many stores are just recently opening, many places to eat are still a distant drive away, and all the shopping malls are pushed over into a pile or abandoned. Water lines from the floods still mark majority of the homes, apartments and business where the levels of standing water were. Seeing what we saw, I would have never guessed it has been two years since the Katrina.
The people I traveled with “the 14″ from Hosanna Lutheran, Mankato, were amazing people to experience this with. We all wanted to do more, stay longer, and try harder to help.
Stories….there are many, far to many, everyone has them, I would like to tell you more and in time I will. For now Here are some images from my week in the Upper Ninth Ward. (also some imagry from the historic Burboun Street)
I am also putting a slide show together via a DVD of all the photos we took while we were there, and if you would like a copy of it, I would be more then happy to send you a copy. For more info on how you can volunteer time or money go to www.camprestore.org
Have a great week everyone!!
WOW, it’s so hot here, even at 8 am it’s 90 some degrees, but once I get out there on the worl site you don’t even think about it. I am getting some great photos and have a story or two to tell when I get back home, I am eager to share with people the experience I am having here!
We have taken tours through the worst of it here, it’s indescribable how much still needs to be cleaned up! I’ll write more later.
I am currently in a subburb of New Orleans, I think it;s called Jefferson, or that’s what the watertower says outside the hotel window. I am in the lobby of the most modern motel I’ve ever stayed at. There are sweet chairs and tables and artwork around every corner. I can allready feel the impact of a more artsy culteral down here. For example they have loads of art books in the lobby for people to page through….
It’s about 96 outside right now, we are about to walk to a local church to worship with the locals! yeah!
We will be at “camp restore” late afternoon to check in and then we are going to go down town New orleans to see what life is like here today.
We ate at a seafood place last night, I had steak, I know I know maybe I’ll try something new…eventually!
Not sure If ‘ll have internet access later, but I’ll check in then, I have taken some sweet pictures allready, can’t wait to share them with you!
Meet Rebecca, this is the latest Senior, Class of 2008, I have photographed (not counting the one that will be walking in my door any second) This was taken yesterday afternoon before the rain came to Mankato.
You rock!
Thanks Becca, I had a great time, and thanks Joyce (Becca’s mom) too for coming with and helping out!
CLICK HERE FOR HER WHOLE SESSION
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