![New Orleans City Park New Orleans City Park spans 1,300 acres, and in 2005, 95% of that was left in floodwaters for weeks after Hurricane Katrina. The Category 5 hurricane caused $43 million in damages to the park alone. But an outpouring of support and funding led to the repairing and improving of City Park as this photo shows 14 years later. [April 29, 2019]](https://alexajulianaardportfolio.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/nola-city-park_april-2019_01.jpg?w=256&h=256&crop=1)
New Orleans City Park spans 1,300 acres, and in 2005, 95% of that was left in floodwaters for weeks after Hurricane Katrina. The Category 5 hurricane caused $43 million in damages to the park alone. But an outpouring of support and funding led to the repairing and improving of City Park as this photo shows 14 years later. [April 29, 2019]

Davon Goodwin is a US Army veteran, who suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury from an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Afghanistan in 2010. Farming proved to be the perfect path for him after returning from war. It gives him a sense of peace from the PTSD he experiences as a result of his time serving in Helmand Province.

One of the kinds of grapes that US Army vet Davon Goodwin grows at a vineyard he manages in Raeford, NC are Muscadine grapes. During the month of September, Goodwin organizes an event called “Pick Your Own,” where the community has the opportunity to come to the vineyard and pick whichever grapes they’d like to buy.
Alexa, your photos are amazing! You really captured the feelings of the people in each picture. Fantastic eye for photography!
Thank you so much! 🙂