Changes

I photographed the beautiful Oak Alley plantation home in Louisiana for the first time in 1984.  This is the picture took at that time.  Now there is a paved walkway down the middle of the centuries old oaks, and while it was well done architecturally, I much prefer the original look.  There are three things certain in life:  death, taxes, and change.  It seems as time goes on, all of the famous places around the world change, and usually for the worse.  There is now a walkway and stage inside the Roman coliseum, there is a new lower level in the Eiffel Tower, and Angkor Wat in Cambodia is now full of wooden boardwalks and railings.  What a shame that governments can't leave things alone.