Hannah Hinchman, a former Sierra columnist, is author of A Life in Hand: Creating the Illuminated Journal (Gibbs Smith, 1999) and A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place (W. W. Norton, 1999).
The pleasures of Louisiana's Atchafalaya River Basin urge you to draw, dance, or just revel in the natural world. It's easy to forget there's a water war going on.