Well, I found the thread.
First time I've seen it's disappeared from the front page... I wonder why?
Always something new to learn at WS.
I am curious about the building to the far left of BSL's residence. It looks like his neighbor's place. While there is some space, especially for those WSers living in the city not used to Louisiana's rural areas, it's not THAT far away....I'm just outside Lafayette city limits, and my nearest neighbor is farther away than that, and I have a lot of trees that give me more privacy than BSL had. He had a certain degree of privacy, but on the flip side, when you have that degree of isolation, your neighbors watch that much more closely - you have to, for common defense against strangers. In a rural area like that, the stare of the man working on the cars is not unusual, actually, even if it weren't BSL's place.
I find myself just curious if BSL's place has been released to the family - whether the crime scene investigation is done and they can come and go as they please? Seems - on its face - like no one has been in, considering the stairs are out of place.
That said - here's an odd Cajun fact for non-locals: Down here, a lot of times it's very uncommon for people to use the front door. Many front doors have not been used in years and the locks are frozen. I don't know what it is, but down here, in a large percentage of dwellings, the back door or garage door is the accepted entrance and exit, and so one gets used to going around and knocking on the door that isn't the front door. I was a Census supervisor and learned that Census notices placed on the front door would often never get seen. I have two uncles and two aunts and eight cousins near me - twelve houses - and not a one of their front doors has been used since I can remember, and are hard to open when I try, just to be different. My two grandpas were the same. Oftentimes, the front door down here is the equivalent of the unused living room; it's there for show. I bet there's a good chance BSL used the back door. The cars are parked back there, after all.
Great pictures, OceanMetTheSky - thanks! What beautiful pictures of his land (the earlier shots). They really capture some of the simple beauty of the south Louisiana prairie that keeps us living here, despite the heat and insects.