I was walking the dogs through City Park this morning and looked up to find the bare tree filled with seasonal ornaments – cormorants! These two are buddying around the lagoon and the black one has a pretty white feather in its tail and I haven’t seen but would love if the white one had a black feather. It felt so good to be back in the park, it is a winter wonderland there right…
The other day I was walking through City Park and noticed how the light was changing, coming in at the horizontal slant that signals fall. The ducks were leaving shadows in their wake. I sent a tweet to City Park saying fall is beautiful in City Park or the like, and they tweeted back, take a photo we have been looking for fall. I wrote back “how do you photograph shadows and light?” This morning…
Yesterday was a glorious day here in New Orleans and a neighbor/friend text me – Bike Ride? – and an hour later we were careening down the bike path that follows the bayou out to Lake Ponchartrain. Beautiful doesn’t begin to describe the ride (a large Louisiana pelican followed us in flight for most of the way) and there was even more reward when we got to the Lake and rode up the ramp to…
So you know how they say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder? And well, it is. This morning I went with a friend and our dogs to the Couturie Forest in City Park, which I’ve been hearing about for a while now. Yes, I was expecting a forest, but the sad fact is that most of the forest was denuded by the Federal Flood and the subsequent clean up that took away all…
I was walking through the park this morning and saw the two white swans and the one black swan swimming around the lagoon and then I saw a gaggle of geese on the newly dubbed Swan Island. I ran into my fellow swan watcher and asked him where the swan babies are, and he said, sadly, “They didn’t make it. Think these three were too young and inexperienced. They sat on the nest too long…
It is a lovely day here in New Orleans, January 6th, Epiphany, the beginning of Mardi Gras and a temperate winter day as we have come to expect here in the Gulf South. The dogs and I romped through the park this morning and there was a bird party going on. Geese, grebes, ducks, swans, cormorants, pelicans – it was looney. As we rounded the backside of the park and were making our towards the…
I walked the dogs without Tin in the Ergobaby because it was already too hot for woman and beast by the time I got out there. We came across the nuns leaving morning mass in their long black habits – mind you it was at least 90 if not more with 1000% humidity. Then we passed the Hari Krishna’s in their ankle length orange robes. There was something going on at the park, lot of…
Since T injured her knee and I’m on the road, she’s been taking the dogs to the new dog park in City Park. And they LOVE it. Loca gets over there and digs to China and once she has dug sufficiently, she then lies herself down in the cool earth. Heidi chases the ball like there is no tomorrow. Both dogs come home tired, spent, and happy as clams. What a great idea to have…
Yesterday the WWL newstruck pulled up as we were all sitting on the porch ending our week with Tin having peanut butter and rice crackers for the first time, and us just starting to relax. CNN had just named New Orleans as one of the ten most dangerous cities in the world and they wanted to know what we thought about it. We gave them an earful – yes New Orleans has long had the…
I keep thinking about the article in the NYT magazine about Treme when it said that New Orleans is all about the moments. Like the moment when we were about to come out of the park yesterday, and I noticed, beside the white stairs that are in the meadow that are an installation post-Katrina that signify the steps home, a gold chair made of twigs and leaves. I did a double take. Today Tin and…