Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Lafayette….. Avery Island, Tabasco sauce, jumping fish, birds, Spanish moss, Buddha and Alligators!

 

Yes Tabasco sauce is made here in Lafayette………

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Chris and I waiting on our rocking chairs………preparing to taste all the different Tabasco sauces

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This was a small taste outside, there were many more inside !

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The fish were jumping……

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Or are they jumping out of the Alligators reach……???

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Who’s watching whom ?

 

 

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Spanish moss….( A plant which hangs about on trees , it doesn’t kill them unless it gets so thick it shades the leaves ) it has been used in padding for car seats (Henry Ford) and mattress filler, also primitive air conditioning……and sells as an “air plant” for €20 a throw on markets in France, sold to unsuspecting punters (ie ME!)

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must be a few thousand € worth on this one tree !!

 

Buddha in the park.

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Some of the many plants in the gardens surrounding the Tabasco sauce factory……..

Camellias in October ??

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Herons and other birds

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Alligator and turtles

 

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