A Trip to New Iberia

The Rosary House

Our Lady of the Rosary House

No Hand Mary

Across the Street

Lourdes Grotto on "Shadow Street"

Petitions and Offerings in the Grotto

In Memory of the Pioneer Families of New Iberia and in gratitude to God for His abundant blessings to the Teche Country.

Charming the Ladies at Victor's

Of course a trip to the New Iberian Teche Country wouldn't be complete without pulling over, putting the truck in 4 wheel drive in a soybean field, and digging up wild Cherokee roses by hand! Talk about tear your hands up, but I had been scouting the ditches of Acadiana for them all spring, and there, in New Iberia with my tolerant best friend Marie, I found the prize that was accessible. Marie said it was o.k. with her. She used to pull over with her grandmother to dig up wild Louisiana Irises, and "now her yard is full of them."