My Love, New Orleans

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Azaleas are a-blooming!

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Oh New Orleans...

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JuJu Bag Cafe is a wonderful little restaurant (and salon, but they aren't in the same room) on Franklin Avenue in Gentilly.  The atmosphere is wonderful, the beer is cold, and the veggie paninis are delicious.

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White Linen Night.  Hot, but filled with wine.

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Not only do gaters love hot dogs, they're willing to do tricks to get these tasty morsels.  Video taken on Dr. Wagner's Honey Island Swamp Tour (http://www.honeyislandswamp.com/)

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A Blue Heron in the Honey Island Swamp.

We took Dr. Wagner's Swamp Tour (http://www.honeyislandswamp.com/)

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Cypresses in the swamp.  We took the Dr. Wagner's Honey Island Swamp Tour ( http://www.honeyislandswamp.com/ )

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Honey Island Swamp Tour: Gaters love hot dogs and mallows.

We took this tour: http://www.honeyislandswamp.com/

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Fourth of July, NOLA style.  Happy Independence Day, y'all.

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These are two examples of the exhibit on the human form now up at the CAC.

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A view of the river from the W on Poydras at dawn.  All pictures on this blog, unless otherwise noted are mine.  Don't ask me how I got this one.

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Crescent City Connection and the Mississippi River

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The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume