Lydia News

Individual Direct Retreats. Today through Monday. Three- to six-day retreat. Meet daily with a spiritual director who will help you recognize God's presence and action in your life.

Is this heat fierce, or what? I had field work to do in Alabama last week, and was fortunate enough to rent an SUV equipped with a compass and outside thermometer.

Community parks offer families a place to retreat from the busyness of everyday life and enjoy healthy, outdoor fun.

While approving funding that reduced cuts to higher education and health care, state lawmakers also included $34 million to fund select projects in their districts.

Lester the lazy anole lizard and I are relaxing on the porch of our north Lafayette Parish home.

Willow seed fills the air by day, lightning bugs fill the air by night. I'm sitting at the usual evening observation post, the back porch of our northeastern Lafayette Parish woodland home.

BAYOU JACK - Residents of this tiny south Iberia Parish community are reminded every day of damage from past hurricanes.

Lydia and I have long-agreed that the gardens here at our place always look their absolute best in May.

The Iberia Parish Mosquito Control District will conduct aerial operations Thursday and Saturday mornings, weather permitting.

Sitting on the back deck here in north Lafayette parish woodland home. Gustav and Ike have put the woods in tattered, ratty-looking condition, but we know it'll be all right.

Thanks to the concern of hundreds of people and the ingenuity of the Louisiana Department of Transportation , "Mr. Al," a live oak tree over a century old, has the chance to live another 200 years rather than ...

NEW IBERIA - Parents and caregivers of children ages 24 to 36 months are invited to participate with their child at Toddler Time at the Iberia Parish Library.