Louisiana Bayou

"There are those to whom place is unimportant, But this place, where sea and fresh water meet, Is important ---" From "The Rose", by Theodore Roethke Chilly late October; thin morning fog banks the roadside, cloaks a trickling bayou... in the thickets of dense trees, the wispy tufts top man-high goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, dried-out thistle stalks... A school bus, solitary, yellow, passes on skinny black asphalt where wet spots reflect the newly risen sun. Rustles of high, green cane fields and intermittent bird songs interrupt pervasive quiet... Timelessness, and solace -- calming, soothing -- a Louisiana bayou: Bayou Sale.