tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432510512370106312011-11-27T18:46:30.484-05:00Riverside has moved to RiversideNOLA.com <p> Please Visit:<p> <a href="http://www.121ruebienville.com/docs/nola.html"><img src="http://www.121ruebienville.com/images/switchboard/wpel.jpg"></a></p></p>Jimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122967693760670734noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-543251051237010631.post-30618961823798581572010-01-29T16:10:00.001-05:002010-01-29T16:11:51.128-05:00

Riverside has moved to RiversideNOLA.comThank you.~Jimm

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.We're all affected by the recession.

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.The Jefferson Fire Company No. 22 crypt is one of four or five firemen group tombs in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 The Lafayette Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 and The Chalmette Fire Co. No. 32 are also in attendance. The writing on the relief of the pump reads: Incorporated April 27 A.D. 1845- Ready at the First Sound. A lot of filming

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.This is a T-shirt I bought in New Orleans after Katrina. I tried to buy a lot of shirts because I know it's a high profit-margin item. $2.00 to make; sell for $35. Fine with me. This is one way I tried to "contribute to the local economy". This person is dressed as a Mardi Gras Indian. The Mardi Gras Indians are black, working class

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.This iron fence is made to look like flowers from one angle,but skulls from another. This is to ward off evil spirits.The upper gallery features clusters of roses that look like skulls from certain angles.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.You wouldn't think I could get sick of the smell of jasmine. But I did. The air is dizzy with it in April

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.Many of the streets in New Orleans are labeled with while tiles with blue letters. These are called "Encaustic" tiles, which means the lettering is clay dust fired with the tile, not dyed or painted, then glazed. These were likely made by the American Encaustic Tile Company of Ohio and New York.That company went out of business in

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.Gotta keep the pigeons off somehow. Some other types, too.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Not just a Coltrane album.

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Café du Monde is a stinking joke of a tourist trap. The coffee is disgusting and the one in the French Quarter has never been cleaned (this is normally charming in New Orleans, but this place is just gross). The beignets are good but you can get good beignets anywhere.It was sold out to a Japanese company decades ago. There is one in the French quarter, there are 4 more in the closest malls just

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions."One of these things is not like the others,One of these things just doesn't belong,Can you tell which thing is not like the othersBy the time I finish my song?"This crypt is an interesting splash of color in the otherwise whitewashed Lafayette Cemetery No.1. I'm very surprised there isn't more of this here. Columnar markers are common

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.Where Napoleon & Prytania streets meet sits St. Elizabeth's, formerly owned by Anne Rice. I don't know much about it, except that I rode my bike past it most days as I went to work, 2/5 of a mile away on Prytania. On the Prytania side of the buiding hung a sign that read, "Stan Rice Gallery". Far as I know, Stan died and Anne sold

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.As I took this picture, I said to my wife, "Huh. You never actually see Cypress trees in the city. You only see them in the parks and swamps." A day later I noticed that THERE ARE TEN OF THEM DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE!I'm pretty sure these don't have the cypress knees, as they are not close enough to water.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Audubon park is a public park that spans the land from Tulane / Loyola Universities to the Mississippi River. It has been the site of a World's Fair, the Cotton Centennial and served as a staging area for soldiers a few times. The area riverside of Magazine is now the Audubon Zoo. The majority Audubon's acreage lakeside of Magazine

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.This building once housed one of the best coffee houses in the city, Rue de la Course. I spent lots and lots of time here. It's on Magazine between 8th and 9th Street. The story that was told to me is that the owners of this building either would not renew the lease to Rue de la Course or made rent prohibitively expensive, forcing

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.This is an ant that was spied walking across some moss at Oak Alley. There is nothing terribly remarkable about this image or animal. I just want to say I'm terribly impressed with the "macro lens" feature on my crappy $100 camera. I've owned this camera since last summer and never bothered to use this setting because I remember how

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601 S Carrollton Avenue New Orleans LA, 70118http://www.lamadeleine.com Dress: casualYeah, it's a chain. I don't care.Yeah, it has plastic cafeteria trays. I don't care.The unisex bathroom is scary and has two mirrors that meet in a corner so you can see yourself throwing a whiz from 8 angles at once (GOD, I hate that!). I don't care.This is one of my favorite places in the city. Almost across

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed versionBy Spring of 2006, much of uptown had been cleaned up pretty well. The bigger emergencies had been tended to first. Eventually there was time to get to the minor casualties and things that were not posing immediate threat of additional harm. This tree is just a little guy who didn't make it. I'm not sure if it was salinity or

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509 S. Carrollton Ave. New Orleans, LAhttp://www.cooterbrowns.comDress: casual to slovenlyRight where the St. Charles Street Car turns from St. Charles to S. Carrolton, Cooter Brown's is one of those places that stock 4000 beers (bottle & tap) and serves great greasy bar food. The best feature is the oyster shucker at the end of the bar. Oyster shuckers are damn-near celebrities in New Orleans.

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.Live Oak post 4682.There are many oak-lined streets in New Orleans. The river side of Washington makes an especially fantastic canopy. The "opening" you see at the focal point where the tree lines end is basically the river (or at least the port on the river). You can't actually see or get to the river in all of uptown (save ferry

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417 Royal Street, French Quarterhttp://www.brennansneworleans.comDress: Dinner Jacket & TieWho woulda thunk that in good old French / Spanish NOLA, the mightiest restaurant (dominating for decades) family would be Irish? The Brennan family and this restaurant and this building have very rich histories that I will let you read about on the website, or you can WIKI it. They are the Royal Family of

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.Formerly St. Mary’s Dominican College, these buildings are now part of the Broadway Campus of Loyola University of New Orleans. This campus is at the intersection of Broadway (hence the name) and St. Charles Ave. The main campus is more or less across the street. Together they constitute the largest Jesuit College South of St.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Hey, when I die, will you do me a favor and bury me in a bread oven?Then bury my dog beneath me.KTHNXBAI

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.I saved this squirrel from getting its butt kicked by a cat. I shooed the cat away but it took me a while to convince him that I wasn't going to eat him myself. To hear his protest, watch the video below.Like a stooge, It didn't occur to me to hold the camera normally.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Futurism! Building a fake future in hopes that a real one will show up and mate with it! Did anything good happen in the 60s?

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Well, no wonder insurance premiums are so freaking high down here!But honestly, as long as these dudes aren't drunk, they're probably doing better than most of the drivers down here.

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.This is the "Mother plant" to my red Brugmansias at home.I ran up to it at a red light and lopped off a foot. Now I have a 7-foot monster of my own:Thriving in crappy Ohio weather.As a side note, the music store behind it is where I bought my beautiful 1978 Fretless Music Man bass.

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.A common architectural "accent" (if you will) seen in New Orleans is a home or interior wall where plaster or some shell covering is falling away due to age- exposing old worn brick underneath. I call this an "accent" because it looks pretty cool, so few people attempt to correct it. Unfortunately, new structures are sometimes

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.This is a big house in riverbend offering shelter after Hurricane Katrina.

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.I grow Castor bean plants (Ricinus communis) every summer. We don't have a particularly long growing season in Ohio and I've just got too much going on to start them early in the house. So I don't get them too big and they don't often fruit. It's hard to get the seeds nowadays because not only does it have industrial uses as well as

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.This was Trent Reznor's studio at Magazine & Jena, which I learned moments ago is a former funeral home (very fitting and also very punk rock). Our house is pretty close to it. We walk past it when we go to La Boulangerie (a bakery) for breakfast. Trent Reznor has had nothing but good luck after moving from New Orleans. First of all

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Ain't Banksy, but I was entertained.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.This is a second post of resurrection ferns (See NOLA F&F 004). I have nothing more to say about them but this picture floors me as much as the first. So I submit it for your enjoyment.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Few know that after her retirement from haunting the dark-wooded forests of Russia and Eastern Europe, Baba Yaga re-settled in New Orleans. Trying to shed to "local celebrity" thing, she's having some modifications done to her home so that it blends in a little better with the neighborhood. Even so, she can still occasionally be seen

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Before re-opening after Katrina, all food service-type places had to be given certification by the Department of Health & Hospitals. This one was given to Le Crepe Nanou, which is my favorite restaurant anywhere. It's just a modest neighborhood crepe joint, and it's the first place we go every time we go back. It's also the only

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I can't tell if this is a Mod or a Rocker.

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.Like the Dragonfly Fence, here's another one that's hard to categorize (between Architecture, Art & Flora). To enclose this porch, someone has welded together some rings and random architectural iron. The centerpiece (the "solid" piece) is a fireplace cover that you see often in New Orleans. The owner must think highly of the work,

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.This is the Monument to Gen. Beauregard. He is interred nearby in Metairie Cemetery.That, my friends, is a chicken big enough to feed an army.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I have very mixed feelings about palm trees. These are giant, fantastic vestiges of the Cretaceous, when they and ferns covered much of a much warmer world. When the first plants diversified to flower, palms were among them. With the appearance of fruit, now plants offered food which is of much higher caloric content than foliage,

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And I have to be OK with that- lest I obsess.popping Diazepam,~Jimm

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Record keeping is very important. It's not just Real Estate, it's history!

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.You can see any number of street preachers in New Orleans during Carnival season (Epiphany, January 6th to Ash Wednesday). But this guy was preaching on Canal Street (usually at Decatur) in 1997 and he's still there today. He had that hat in '97, too. He sits more than he stands these days, but he still gets to the French Quarter by

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I am just certain that these wires were strung under this branch like this. I highly doubt the branch moved and pulled them taut. These are not "primary wires", i.e. from the electric company. These are phone and or cable.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Publish PostThis window reminds me of the pictures you see of spiderwebs after a spider has been given some sort of mood-altering substance. I also love the metal attic vents you see on the other building.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.You can't participate in the Tri-State shutter swap ifYOUR SHUTTERS ARE PAINTED ON!This is kind of selfish if you ask me. Not only do people in Mississippi need those shutters, you're denying yourself access to the shutters that are coming in From Texas.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Speaking of cypress knees, I told you nature prevails down south. Watch your back or it'll overwhelm you. Pave over it. It'll just punch back through. These knees are digging out of the Underworld somewhere in Audubon Zoo. Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Not to be outdone, the Victorian brick streets are

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I love this little guy. It looks like one of those Cajun houseboats.If I had this house, I would hang tires all the way around it, then throw out a fishing line.It helps that the white, round thing on the porch looks like a life preserver. Got your Igloo cooler for your bait or catch. Yep, this thing's a boat.This is on Laurel

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Just, you know, put stuff anywhere!It's only a sacred marker for someone's mother's final resting place!

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I don't know if I could sleep with this dude standing behind my house. Didn't Godzilla fight this guy? Seriously.Looks like a rejected Sid & Marty Krofft character. This is on Maple Street at the corner of Dublin, up in Carrolton.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.So, you know,when times are tough just put a McDonald's billboard on your blighted structure. Wouldn't it be cool if you could do that? Notice that this is 2 doors down from the houses in my first post. This is Uptown, on the lake side of St. Charles, Delachaise St. & Freret."We break 'em then we fix 'em"View Larger Map

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Ohh, the Carousel of Endangered Species. That's fun. It's right at the end of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. You just ride in circles and sob. Enjoy your day at the Zoo, kids! Anyone see the duck growing out of the frog's butt?

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I really just can't get enough of these. Acer Rubrum is by far not limited to Louisiana. In fact, I think its distribution includes lower Canada. I see these everywhere down south, so it's an association thing with me. This particular color scheme may be localized. I just love it. Which is odd, because I hate Red, yellow and orange.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.It was my suggestion that we buy this house and move into the little one on the left. Then we could rent out the big one to pay the note. It would be brilliant if the whole thing weren't out of our price range by about 800%. Oh and if we were 3' tall.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Not all was gloom and doom after the storm.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.This is a climbing species of philodendron (or Pathos) making its way up an Oak tree. There is significant differentiation in leaf shape as it climbs higher.This is something you see more commonly in Miami or Hawaii. I still get excited when I run across one in New Orleans.Junking this up with lights and plastics signs and plastic

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St. Vincent GuesthousePlease click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.The St. Vincent Guesthouse is a hotel created from an ancient Orphanage. Many simply refer to it as "The Orphanage". This is where we stay when we require paid lodging in New Orleans. It's also where we recommend people stay. It's very affordable and very "New Orleans". And when we say "very New Orleans", we

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version....Almost a Saint.I don't know if that means "nearly canonized" or "big and or tough enough to be on the local NFL team". They grow 'em pretty big in NOLA. Anyway, you might recognize the last name from the Mamaw Nice Lady post. This is a fun burial spot. Death is often taken lightly way down yonder.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.We took a canoe out on the bayou in Jean Lafitte National Park out in Batataria, Jefferson County. This is just a stone's throw South of New Orleans and reminds you that you really are in the middle of a swamp there. We rented it from the fine people at Bayou Barn. It was actually a very chilly march morning. We were wearing multiple

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Again, New Orleanians are not afraid of bold colors. This is a shotgun house. This means there are no hallways, just a series of rooms with all of the doors in a row. Theoretically, you could open all of the doors and shoot a shotgun through without hitting anything.Or at least that's one definition. This could be a cross-over to the

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Ahhhh, FREEDOM!Can you believe- can you just imagine:We went out to a coffee house, ordered coffee and muffins, then went out to sit on the patio. Believe it or not, I was able to pick up the ashtray and move it to another table myself!Yep! All by myself! I didn't have to have the Nanny State do it for me! I'm a big-boy!What will

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Mr. (&Mrs.) SnailOur "front yard" is about 4' x 6'. It's basically a patch of Canna that I tried to remove in its entirety to replace with Brugmansias (this will likely take me years to dig out, as Canna have massive rhizomes).After each rain, this large land snail comes out and runs all crazy, silly-like around the little plot, then

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.2008This is a little house on General Pershing St. in which I lived very briefly in 1999. The neighborhood was pretty rough-it's the only place I lived where stuff was stolen out of my yard. But the big problem was the guy next to me with the iron fence that had two dogs that barked from sundown to sun up, every night. They weren't

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Many parts of the country have invasive flocks of feral Quaker Parrots, also called Monk Parakeets-(Myiopsitta monachus) thriving in their area. It's not just limited to semi-tropical places like New Orleans and Miami. Chicago has it's own group doing just fine through their Jet Stream winters. Many people became familiar with feral birds from the movie The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Down South, what we in Ohio call Laundromats are called Washaterias.Not concerned with anyone's dignity, Katrina has turned this one into scatological humor. Or maybe the title to one of those weird Hentai movies.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.The catwalk is one of my favorite architectural elements that is very common in New Orleans. To me, it's up there with having multiple tree houses connected with rope bridges- how cool is that? This is behind Mojo coffee house on Magazine and Race St. It's across the street from St. Vincent Guest House, where we used to stay when

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Every time I look at this marker, I envision random body parts buried randomly about this field- not too deep, maybe wrapped in something flimsy or some old gauze. An arm here or a leg there... pile of guts, maybe...Then I read this on NOLACemeteries.com:"Charity Hospital Cemetery was established in 1847. It is is a mass grave for all

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Maryland Carpetbaggers!

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I have a great appreciation for any instance where someone takes a moment to consider the way something placed in the public eye will look. I love when a little embellishment is added to something utilitarian, or when a feature is added to a house that is not necessarily required for habitation, but for style or fun. We can argue later

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New Orleans is divided into many areas, districts and neighborhoods. You may see them referred to as Faubourgs (defined as A district lying outside the original city limits of a French-speaking city or a city with a French heritage). They are named for such things as the plantations that originally occupied the land, the smaller cities that New Orleans annexed, Projects or landmarks. You may

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.These upward-pointing projections are called Cypress Knees.They are jealous little things that will punish you for giving too much attention to the sun or moss in the upper boughs, as suddenly you find yourself heaped upon them. The knees grow from the roots of Cypress trees (as you would guess). Their purpose is not yet

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.Memorials for lost or missing persons persisted for some months after the 2005 storms. This was Uptown on the upstream, riverside corner of Jackson at Magazine.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.My understanding here is that Mamaw...was a nice lady.And that her great grandchild designed her flower-holder.Very sweet.This is in a Cemetery at Canal / City Park. I think it's St. Patrick No. 1, but I'm not sure.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I've watched these buildings decay for a lot of years.I fear they are just going to be wiped away.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Birdhouse, NOLA Style.These birdhouses are in the same yard as Doghouse, NOLA style.But more importantly, the tree with the pink flowers is possibly the largest Crepe Myrtle I've ever seen.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I wish I had two Rosemary hedges. Don't you? I'd settle for just one.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.You may have seen pictures of the post-Katrina "Refrigerator Graveyard" or "Appliance Graveyard". Most of these appliances had messages painted on them. Like the "warning, we will shoot" messages on some of the houses, it got lots of press. I've even seen a book entirely of photographs of these appliances. Of course it has a Wiki

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I will admit that this is not a terribly pleasing photograph.For unbelievably gorgeous photos from this cemetery, please visit NOLACemeteries.com.The asymmetry in the iron work is due to vandalism. You can see the symbols of the "benevolent society" known as The Independent Order of Odd Fellows. They are: the mother and her children,

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Not every domicile in New Orleans is an ancient, often decrepit Victorian. Some clever people are able to build new homes (or even renovate old ones) that are unique and beautiful and don't insult the lovely venerable homes next to which they sit. These two homes are on Burthe St. between Fern & Short St. It is walking distance from

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Nothing says, " We're a grass-roots movement by the soul-of-the-neighborhood and a community coming together to keep a positive message in the face of adversity." like corporate sponsorship.Notice the tiled inset with the street name, "Freret".

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Please click on the images for larger, more-detailed versions.The Asian Scrotum Plant (Testicliensis orientalis) is actually an invasive species to New Orleans.I kid you. I am a kidder.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.It was just enough water to get in and screw everything up.The Live Oaks did just fine, but massive Magnolias, Crepe Myrtles by the score and anything submerged below the waterline for extended periods of time as these shrubs were didn't have a chance. This medical center is on Canal Street near Mid-City, which is the deepest part of

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.This tomb is in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, where scenes from the films Easy Rider and Interview with a Vampire were shot.It is bordered by 6th St, Prytania, Coliseum and Washington. This is Uptown, Garden District.We lived in an apartment on 6th Street, 2 doors down from the cemetery. The opposite corner of the cemetery meets the front

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.Bet you didn't know New Orleans has a World Trade Center.They do and it has a website. The Plimsoll Club is the restaurant at the top, similar to Windows on the World.I don't know if the Plimsoll Club rotates or not. The WTC sits on the Mississippi at the end (or beginning if you prefer) of Canal Street, which separates the French

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version. I'm sure you've noticed in your town that stencil graffiti has become rather popular. There is master stencil graffiti artist out there who uses the moniker "Banksy". Apparently, when Banksy violates your property rights and besmirches the visual integrity of your building, your property value increases by $35,000 to $170,000!. The

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.I promise I will get away from the Oak trees soon. I think I could have a whole album called "New Orleans Live Oaks" separate from the "Flora & Fauna", and have a paragraph to write about each one.This tree is in the Garden District, at 7th and Prytania. I took this photo in March of '06, when Katrina / Rita cleanup was being executed

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version. This was uptown, near the upstream end of the Garden District.

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version. We try to be seasonal, we really do.Each year, City Park decorates its ancient Oak trees with Winter / Christmas paraphernalia. The event is called Celebration in the Oaks and it's yet one more excuse for tho whole city to get together and get sloshed. Then some young punks show up, shoot the shit out of us and we go home. But Heck,

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Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version. I have dozens of "favorite houses" in New Orleans, but this lovely Victorian is up in the top 3 or 5. It's at Prytania and Marengo. Our house is on Marengo, so I get to drive by it a lot. The windows in the rounded corner area (I have no architectural vocabulary whatsoever) have curved glass. Some of these windows have the dimples and

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So this chick was tooling around the shops at Jefferson / Magazine in this child-filled contraption. Even in New Orleans, she kind of stood out- all that RED! Not to mention she was wearing some kind of heeled shoes (patent cherry red wedge pumps, Janine remembers). To top it off, the damn dog. To top it off again, the parasol??So I said, "Hey, can I take a picture of your, um, thing, there?"

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Live Oaks & Azaleas.I have no idea where this photo came from, so I can't give a proper photographer credit. And I'm not even sure it's New Orleans. This could be Savannah, for all I know. But I've seen places like this in New Orleans and feel it represents it properly, anyway. Perception is reality. I've learned this from my politicians, who thankfully know better than I. Like, Oral sex isn't

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If larger versions are desired, please click on the images below.Today's pic is a 3-parter. This is a lovely Live Oak on Carrolton Avenue. You've surely noticed by now that this album will be absolutely lousy with Oak trees. But they are truly breath-taking. This is how you notice that New Orleans has seasons: Brown, crunchy moss or lush, green moss.

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.Often, I will have to make a call as to which album I should place a photo. Of course all architecture is art. My focus here is the Fence, which I will lump in with architecture. I should do the same with landscaping. I first saw this while riding my bike around. It took me months to find it again to take a picture. And actually, I

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.This house is not decorated for a festival, parade, or holiday. It's just there for the sake of art and fun.That or it was decorated for a festival, parade, or holiday and it's just there because no one got around to taking it down. It's too damn hot to have a sense of urgency.

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.These are called Resurrection Ferns (ones that grow from random places- cracks in steps, walls, etc) after a good rain. People often ask me what my favorite thing about New Orleans is (because I annoyingly somehow find a way to work the topic into every conversation I have). I have one reply: "If you stand on a street corner for any

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.Dude has one wall and a roof. HELL YES we're going to restore instead of rebuild!My cynical side guesses that this was done because it allowed for a more obtainable loan as opposed to a new construction loan.

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.Here's the problem in a nutshell.I'm not at all anti-industry or one of those people whining non-stop about multi-national corps, but destroying the Gulf South's windbreak for factories and petrochemical plants is the second stupidest thing we've done which ensures the demise of New Orleans as well as the rest of the swamp.But,

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.This is in a covered "courtyard" sort of thing behind Z'otz coffee house / cyber cafe on Oak street way uptown. Many areas behind bars / shops / coffee houses have areas in the back that are kind of outside but kind of not.13Jan09:It finally occurred to me to look at the paper on the wall.This piece is called "The Twins" and was

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.There's a different attitude toward nature in New Orleans. First of all, it's best not to anger it. You see that this is not a big or fancy or exotic tree, but we're still making way for ducklings, here. I see a lot of stuff like this in this town.

Jimmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-543251051237010631.post-60721354016783663582008-12-21T22:43:00.003-05:002009-01-15T20:56:20.951-05:00

If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below.Accurately described by my bride as a "fallen cake", this is likely not a candidate for rehab. One must understand that New Orleans looked like this BEFORE Katrina and Rita. The city has been neglected for 35 years. And it has been rebounding for 35 years.

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If a larger version is desired, please click on the image below."Shutter Swap" posts are mostly professionally-taken photos or photos found on the web, and largely offered without comment.

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