On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Here are some pictures of my beautiful tidewater city, which I shall call for now “Port Lafayette.”
Somewhere in the Tidewater South
same city
Mary G
Beautiful! Such great porches on Southern houses.
satby
Looks just lovely, and you’re a good photographer Betsy!
JeanneT
Sure looks like there are lovely old neighborhoods to walk through in Port Lafayette!
JPL
Lovely pictures and so inviting.
Auntie Anne
Beautiful! What a lovely place!
Spanky
Those plaques look very familiar. My father retired to those parts and became involved in the local historical society. He’s been gone 20 years now, and I’ve not been back.
A wonderful town, indeed.
WaterGirl
Oh my gosh, I want to live in the house and have that yard. And you’re on the water!
Jealous. In a good way.
WaterGirl
How charming to hang a basket of flowers on the white picket fence!
TaMara (HFG)
Love absolutely everything about that top photo. They are all beautiful. Thanks.
Mike in Oly
So nice to see sunshine and flowers on a cold winter’s morning.
J R in WV
Beautiful place !! As a person who has struggled to maintain really old houses, I can’t help but wonder how hard it is to keep those beautiful old homes in shape. Looking at the old unmaintained standing seam roof on the old low house, hoping it can’t leak for the beauty keeping water out!
I’m sure there are hundreds of small towns along the coast like that, that aren’t completely run over by development, condo towers, blown out by storms. When my folks spent winters in FLA we would drive up and down the coast, and deep into mysterious inland Florida, and there were lots of little towns that looked like that. That was in the late 70s and up to the early 90s.
Having been back to FLA since then, I can say that the headlong stampede to pave the barrier islands and cover then with high-rise condos, leaving no reason to be in FLA but weather, with no old Florida left behind continues unabated. Obviously between Betsy and Betty Cracker we know there is old FLA and Old Southern homes and towns tucked away hidden. Perhaps we should take a wander on old rural roads down south while it still seems safe… We’ve always enjoyed the small towns of GA, SC and FL, even NC also too. Louisiana is sweet in places.
Jay Noble
Sitting here in the gray beige brown Nebraska panhandle, the color was a welcome injection!