gone and almost forgotten

Happy Halloween

Friday music

Los Po-boy-citos at the Jones patio ...     Friday is the beginning of the weekend.

the leaning house came down today

Thank God!  it was finally taken "down to the dirt" by Demo Diva.    This house has been visibly leaning into the street for over a year (see my earlier photo from May 2010), being propped up by boards which would not have held a whole big long house...  an extremely dangerous situation.  The Entergy workers had come out because there was a report of the smell of gas, after the major demolition.  The neighbors were in their doorways to see what was going on.    Everyone is relieved that the house didn't simply fall down on its own.

two almost-ready new libraries

Jefferson Parish Lakeshore Library, in Metairie, and Norman Mayer branch of NOPL in Gentilly

(for comparison with earlier stages of construction see this and this.)

the river end of Oak St.

bench at Cowbell (restaurant), corner with Eagle St., Graffiti Graphics window

crows

crows at Norman Mayer Ave. and Caton St., near Mount Olivet Mausoleum and Cemetery

cold wind and surf

on the Mississippi River

a little loving care

(this post's title is a phrase by Glenn in comments in My Life in the Quarter, Oct. 17)

Mardi Gras rose and poignant memories

yesterday in North Carolina, today back home.  

home and away

Lakeshore Drive behind UNO (N.O., LA)

and Poplar Grove Plantation (Wilmington, NC) 

home and away

Bayou St. John (N.O., LA)

and Wrightsville Beach, NC

home and away

game day

at Fleurty Girl

a bright Magazine Street weekday

nighttime billboards

the intersection of Gentilly and Elysian Fields

October

grassy lots