Faubourg

      When I wrote up the last ride report, I made the statement that I didn't start off with any preconceived plan.
The next ride would be just that.
       For a while I've been looking at stuff people put in their front yards as displays, obvious displays, not just junk that turns into displays after a while, like mine. I decided to go looking for on-purposeful displays.
       The true displayer often uses something historical as a beauty mark in his front yard. Some do it bigtime. I have seen at least three great, no, four great displays of filling stations. No five, I forgot the one in Arkansas.
Then there have been hundreds of displays of old farming equipment. Some are just lined up impliments. Some are focal points in flower beds, and many are incorporated into mail boxes, especially plows.
        I have never seen what I found on the banks of the Teche, upper Church Rd, just south of its intersection with La.103 where that road is headed to Port Barre or Leonville, depending on what pulls you.

Believe it or not, I have a few farmers or ex-farmers (an easily attainable title) that read this thing. The little shed on the Teche displayed signs and stuff that connect with farmers. If you don't understand or recognize those things, then you haven't been to Farming School, a branch of the School of Hard Knocks.And, just be very thankful that there are folks that do understand that stuff. I am.

This was on the light side of the house. Simple pleasures. I wonder if "Sukup" is for "Sukup the money"?
Just kidding Mr.Sukup. I would bet my little "funny" was not original. Here's a free ad to make nice. (by Ray Daigle)

More stuff. The displayer used The "Nail It On the Wall" organizational kit.The kit includes nails. You must supply your own wall. A common hand tool, a hammar, is needed to handle the job, but not included. If you need directions, please put down all common hand tools and hire someone before you hurt yourself.

Cabin

Bayou Teche

La.103

A great side trip to break up that boring Los Angeles to Jacksonville run would be to take La.31 at Breaux Bridge and leisurely ride up the Teche to Leonville. There, get on La.103 or take Church St. north and come to the intersection of those two roads and observe the little cabin by the Teche. Hey, if you want, you can follow the rest of this ride. You'd be done in four hours or so. Then go get someting to eat.

I jumped on Jennings Road after enjoying the cabin and the dark coolness of the Teche.
Jennings is like Bilbo Rd. in Mississippi. It's a big truck shortcut. I did meet one large truck and the dust that accompanies those encounters on gravel roads. Gravel Smavel, you could ride Jennings on a bicycle. Oh, the trees, neat trees, huh? Don't look at the old can in the ditch. I try to cut liter out of my pictures. It's hard and getting harder. Where's the pride? .
I guess I could have picked it up and used it to collect other trash on the road.
It would have been full in a mile. I know, until I pick it up, just shut up.

I thought that the above picture was pretty simple. Then I started counting all the things going on in it. I count six, no seven.

The Teche, at this latitude, is heading into Port Barre. This is the Little Teche, just south of US.190, west of Port Barre. I took many pictures as I sat watching the train cross the road and the bridge. This is the second to last shot of the train series.. The last shot caught the train just clearing the water. If I'd used it, then the train wouldn't have been on the bridge. That's why I'm the editor of this thing.
Oh, for train buffs, there will be another train picture later in this report.

I would continue, still looking for front yard displays. I didn't find any more. Maybe, where I went next, the folks just didn't display much.