New Orleans Out-Takes

Alas, we didn't get to any of New Orleans' cemeteries this time; they
were all closed or required your being on a tour to get in; having
recently seen the Cemeterio Monumentale in Milan and often visited
Paris' Pere Lachaise Cemetery, I don't think we'd have been much
impressed

Over-stocked (French book store)

The usual weirdness

New weirdness

Drummer boys; the streets are lined with them in the evening; 
New Orleans with a sound ordinance is unthinkable

Artsy-fartsy shot of the day

Sic transit, Gloria (the wrecking ball is not far)

Sign of the times (dating service)

Sic transit, Gloria, reversed: once the Kresge's,
a five and dime chain my mother worked at
in Miami for a time; now the Ritz-Carlton

Now in the Garden District

The French Consulate

As I have often observed, the French can't abide empty space

Lawn ornaments

The point of this photo was to show, as Vicki said, you cannot
rely on your neighbors to keep things up; note the paint peeling
off the wall; however, click to enlarge to see the incipient shoe
line to the upper right; what's this neighborhood coming to?

Case in point: beads adorning a stop sign across
the street

There was a time when "upscale casual" would have been an
oxymoron

Cafe du Monde consumes approximately 1/7 of the world's
confectionary sugar

"Dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice-ridden birds"

French Quarter version of the famous corn fence (from Sears
Roebuck?)

New Orleans, 2

Next day we took the (open air) trolley up to the Garden District, which Vicki always enjoys. I'm always impressed with the great variety of 19th century Neo Revival bourgeois architecture. Also the gardens.

Debarking from the trolley

Excellent signage

The very famous corn fence

Sometimes the gardens get in the way of the District

But the signage is excellent

Gothic house

Original building of the Louise S. McGehee school for girls

Nice grill work

Nice camellias

Schoolie parked in front of the mansion...friends moochdocking?

Tract housing for the wealthy, Vicki said (six identical in a row)

New Orleans, 1

We have visited New Orleans many times in the past, several times for vacation get-aways--we lived in "nearby" Dallas for 13 years. One of Vicki's fond memories is of the Christmas open houses in the Garden District we must have visited in the 80s. When I was in the higher ed biz, and later in the humanities biz, I went to New Orleans on several occasions, for conferences and meetings and such. I can't say we've seen it all: I still want to visit the WWII museum, for example. But that will have to wait until COVID-19 is over. On this visit we just walked around, looking at the architecture and flora and fauna and overall weirdness, not going inside anything that wasn't completely open-air. By and large, people were masked and staying apart, that is, until Saturday night on Bourbon St. We left about that time.

In le quartier francais, a residential bit

Not a residential bit; excellent signage though

Dorsal view of cathedral

Assorted iconic stuff...

Afternoon snack at the Cafe du Monde; reminding me that chicory
is to coffee as hamburger helper is to hamburger...

Excellent signage though

Jackson Square and cathedral from the artillery park

Thus

The Great River

Us, there

The band playing on

Not this day

"Now go do that voodoo that you do so well..."

Late afternoon Bourbon St.

Remains of the shrimp and grits at Cafe Amelie on Royal St;
their large courtyard seemed designed for COVID-19 dining;
the cherry/almond bread pudding was super; as was the Sazerac

Rue de Bourbon as we left