My wife’s birthday arrives each June, when small summer road trips seem like a good way to celebrate. Our destinations are often no more than a couple of hours away, which allows us to make other plans back at home.
Those short hops have connected us with different parts of Louisiana over the years, reminding us that this corner of the world isn’t just one place, but many.
For one birthday, when our kids were small, we traveled to a bamboo nursery in Washington Parish. Light rain fell as we parked our van within a thicket of towering canes and waited for the weather to break. We all felt, I think, as if we were resting within summer’s deep, green heart…