Katrina photo essay, part 3

PASS CHRISTIAN, MS -- More than six months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through Louisiana and Mississippi, devastation still grips the coast.

These pictures, taken around noon today, are similar -- but a little different -- from the earlier photos in New Orleans. They're the same because of the destruction that permeates. They're different because of the trees. Just about everywhere you look, you see trash-filled trees.

As in New Orleans, people are recovering -- houses are being rebuilt, people are buried in cemeteries, cafes serve food. But what's happened -- and is still happening -- here is truly numbing.

• View photo essay from New Orleans