{"id":54,"date":"2009-01-19T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:07:18","slug":"memorial-to-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/54","title":{"rendered":"Memorial to the Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning \/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas \/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <w:DontGrowAutofit \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"Hurricane Victim #2\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3325\/3230621864_3e90ef7fa1_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3325\/3230621864_3e90ef7fa1_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hurricane Victim #2\" width=\"120\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"All that remains of a once thriving middle class neighborhood in Bay St. Louis\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3388\/3230607878_b1e370491b_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3388\/3230607878_b1e370491b_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"All that remains of a once thriving middle class neighborhood in Bay St. Louis\" width=\"120\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a> Yesterday, I met artist Zita Waller, who lives in Bay St. Louis. I was thrilled to find a fellow oil painter and asked if she would be interested in painting with me one day. \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d, Zita said, \u201cbut I don\u2019t paint outside since Katrina.<!--more--> I loved to paint the piers and I also painted most of the mansions and other historic houses <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">along the shore<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">. But it is so different now that they are all gone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Hurricane Victim #1\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3375\/3230619872_3a22160a3f_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3375\/3230619872_3a22160a3f_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hurricane Victim #1\" width=\"79\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Trees didn't survive 30ft water\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3441\/3229757095_aef8f7b827_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3441\/3229757095_aef8f7b827_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Trees didn't survive 30ft water\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a> Zita said that over 700 trees have been planted \u2013 but like most things here \u2013 there\u2019s so much more to do \u2013 arborists are needed to prune and cut out dead trees as well as plant new ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"IMG_3252\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3466\/3230607544_f76b1a7037_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3466\/3230607544_f76b1a7037_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3252\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a> The broken, damaged and dead trees are a constant reminder of what Katrina stole from the Gulf Coast residents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broken, damaged and dead trees are a constant reminder of what Katrina stole from the Gulf Coast residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,11,12],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-art","tag-bay-st-louis","tag-katrina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}