Scarcello Images

This distinctive neon sign is all that remains from Meisel’s Fabrics on Oak Street. I remember shopping there for sewing projects.

Unexpected delight - dramatic lighting in the stairway at the Delta Sky Club.

I’m always fascinated by ghost signs. Their nearly illegible clues hint at earlier, more promising times. These are in Ménerbes and Vaugines.
The carved wall is a tombstone dating back to 1254 in the cloister of Abbaye Saint-Hilaire. The incised sun dial in Ménerbes has this foreboding message in Latin: ‘ultima forsan’ - perhaps the last. Both are ghost signs in their own ways.

Saignon: a picture perfect Provençal village with its 12th century pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame de Pitié. with

Balcony views of two of the most iconic buildings in New Orleans - St. Louis Cathedral completed in 1793 and the 1850 Upper Pontalba Building.

Hidden behind plywood for fifteen years on St. Bernard Ave, this Banksy Simpsons mural was created during his post-Katrina visit to New Orleans. The entire wall was recently relocated to this French Quarter restaurant but not before it was vandalized.
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Thanks to the Preservation Resource Center for the hard hat tour of this lovely 1894 Italianate home in the Garden District. It’s going to be a stunning renovation.

Easy Street? Not so sure.
But definitely down on the bayou.

Salacious, satirical, scatological, sacrilegious, sophomoric - and wickedly funny. Krewe du Vieux parade winding thru Marigny.

Are you a holiday maximalist? Or do you like restrained, understated decorations?

Holiday lagniappe. Hansen’s open for their annual Christmas pop-up Dec 16 and 17. Yum!

The Mississippi River is at historic lows. Carrollton Gage recording 3 feet.