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Thur. Dec. 9 Southern Thoughts

“There ain’t no tacky like Southern tacky.”

A Classic: Hwy 394 between Dry Creek and DeRidder

 

I’ve seen it all: pink flamingos filling the yard, trees painted white up to head high, tires half-buried as borders around the flowers, junk freezers at the driveway end for the trash (can anyone spell t-r-a-s-h  b-e-n-d.)

These are the things I love about Southern Living (and I’m not talking about the magazine.)

Here’s one of my local favorites:  taking the head of a huge catfish and hanging it on a highway sign.  Don’t ask me why, but I’ve see them from time to time.  One hung on Mitchell Harper Rd. near East Beauregard for over a year.

Catfish head La. 463 at La. 121
That catfish head has hung so long that I believe it's fossilized.

This specimen hangs proudly at the intersection on La. 463 with its intersection with La. 121  near Hineston, La.

Like I said,  “There ain’t no tacky like Southern tacky.”

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