Biloxi rises, ten years post-Katrina
Traffic whisks past the the Biloxi Lighthouse as daylight fades.
Biloxi Lighthouse
The Biloxi Lighthouse is silhouetted against an amber sky as the sun sets across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Biloxi Dawn
The first rays of dawn silhouette the Biloxi lighthouse against a pastel backdrop of blue and orange.
Coast Still Rebuilding, 10 Years Later
Workers build a boat house at the end of a dock on the bay in Pass Christian.
TatoNut
Customers line up for donughts at the TatoNut Shop in Ocean Springs.
Perched atop a lift, Florida artist Marlin Miller, uses a grinder to freshen up his iconic Hurricane Katrina tree sculptures along U.S. 90.
Sawdust flies as Florida artist Marlin Miller uses a grinder to spruce up his iconic Hurricane Katrina tree sculptures along U.S. 90 in Biloxi.
Adele Anderson Lawton decorates a pot in the Annex at Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs. Lawton is the daughter of Mac Anderson, younger brother of Peter and Walter Anderson. The three brothers and their families created Shearwater Pottery in the late 1920's.
Cousins Joni Edwards of Perkinston and Gary Edwards of Dickson, Tenn., tour the showroom at Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs.
A muffin tin serves as a paint palette at Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs.
With steady and skilled hands, potter Jim Anderson creates mini pots at the Shearwater Pottery workshop. Jim is the son of Shearwater's founding potter, Peter Anderson.
Standing in the new Jefferson Davis Presidential Library, Beauvoir Curator Dennie Spence talks about the changes that have taken place at the Confederate President's home since it took a beating at the hands of Hurricane Katrina.
The Beau Rivage casino and resort rises from the edge of the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi as dawn breaks over the horizon.
The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library rises beyond Varina's Rose Garden at Beavoir, last home of the Confederate President.
Standing outside a former convent on church property, Father Charles McMahon of St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Pascagoula points to the west where a new sanctuary is planned to replace the one destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Services are now being held in the parish hall.
Heather Wade, left, owner of Ali's Attic at Anchor Square in Pascagoula, helps customer Tonya Willard, of Gautier. The shop is one of the many boutiques that have found a home in former Katrina Cottages at Anchor Square.
Katrina Cottages have been transformed into a tranquil neighborhood at The Cottages at Oak Park in Ocean Springs.
Two homes on Cedar Street near Biloxi's Point Cadet share vacant space between them where neighboring homes once stood. Few new homes have replaced those destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Motorists make their way along U.S. 49 in Gulfport.
A beach sweeper cleans the sand in Gulfport.
Lauren Whitney recalls that this tree the front yard of her childhood home in Kiln split as the family rode out Hurricane Katrina in the house, background. The famliy and the house, which they sold soon after the storm, survived unscathed. Lauren says that her grandfater painted over the stumps of the broken boughs with green paint and she was surprised to see remnants of the paint still visible on the tree.
A young boy splashes through the water along the shore in Long Beach.
The Oyster Reef Club, background, towers over U.S. 90 in Long Beach directly across the street from the overgrown parking lot of the former K Mart that was washed away by Hurricane Katrina.
Colorful wind vanes twirl in the breeze outside a shop in downtown Long Beach.
Judy Jones of Hurley paints a fleur de lis Christmas tree during a pottery class at the Pascagoula Senior Center. Jones, a Jackson native and Murrah High School graduate says that she moved to the gulf coast after college and worked 31 years for Ingalls Shipbuilding until she retired a little over three years ago.
Aundrea Williams, right, poses for a birthday photo with her sister, Jasmine Nettles, center, and cousin, Destiny Williams, along the lakefront in Moss Point. Williams, who just turned 19, and the others were waiting for a photographer to arrive to shoot more formal pictures.
Caleb LeBlanc, 15, skates along Pascagoula Street in Pascagoula.
Antonio Owens of Gulfport fishes at Pass Christian Harbor near the wreckage of a pier destroyed by Hurricane Katinra. Owens is a life-long Gulfport resident and said his house was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Despite that, he still lives in the same area.
The condos at 1515 East Beach Boulevard in Pass Christian are painted in pastel hues.
Friends Jack Rogers, left, and Justin Tuck, both 9, entertain themselves in the iMac Room at the Aaron Jones Family Interactive Center in Pascagoula.
High school English teachers, right to left, Donna Pace from Gautier High School, and Rissa Killen and Laura Miley from Pascagoula High School, continue working on curriculum planning during a demonstration of the blacklights in the aptly-named blacklight room at the Aaron Jones Family Interactive Center in Pascagoula.
Kaydin McDonnell, center, gets fired up as he arrives to register for kindergarten at Nichols Elementary School in Biloxi with his mother, Mandi, left, and older brother, Terrence. Helping Kaydin register is Nichols Record Clerk Tahirah Crawford, right.
Sea birds swarm over a shrimp boat returning to port in Biloxi.
Anh Nguyen scoops shrimp into a nearby scale while selling the catch from the back of one of two boats that she and her husband, Lien Nguyen, operate from the commercial docking facility in Biloxi.
Anh Nguyen weighs shrimp for a customer while working to sell the morning's catch from the back of one of two boats that she and her husband, Lien Nguyen, operate from the commercial docking facility in Biloxi.
Stefan Wood, of Malvern, Ark., pulls a cooler full of shrimp onto the dock at the commercial docking facility in Biloxi where he and his wife, Alana Wood, background, bought 55 pounds of the crustaceans from a boat operated by Lien and Anh Nguyen. The Woods were joined by Alana's parents, Horace and Roseanna Douglas, who purchased an additional 40 pounds. The group say they travel to Biloxi once a year to fill their freezers.
Anh Nguyen, far right, as customers, from left, Roseanna and Horace Douglas, their daughter Alana Wood and her husband, Stefan Wood, all of Malvern, Ark., load up coolers bearing nearly 100 combined pounds of shrimp.
Eric Butler and his son, Brody Butler, 8, both of Brookhaven, take an early-morning stroll through the commercial docking facility in Biloxi checking out the offerings of each boat before making their purchase.
A new home stands high atop pilings on North Beach Boulevard in Bay St. Louis directly next to the shorter pilings of a home no longer standing.
Pilings stand as testomony to a home lost to Hurricane Katrina on Beach Boulevard in Waveland.
The Waveland Business Center is among several new municipal structures built post-Hurricane Katrian along Coleman Avenue.
Bill Mulvany of Poplarville casts a net into a tributary along Beach Boulevard just outside Waveland.
A home stands in apparent isolation at the end of Grosvenor Place in Waveland.
A motorist heads south along Nicholson Avenue in Waveland.
Children play beneath a rainbow arching over the splash pad at Polit Cadet Plaza in Biloxi.
Justin Sisk, center, of West Memphis, Ark., and brothers Christian, left, and Alex Keys, of Gautier, run through the fountains at the Point Cadet Plaza splash pad.
The beach in Biloxi bustles with activity, both on land and on the water.
