Katrina Anniversary Photos

I think that I can finally post some shots from the anniversary.

The Lower Ninth March, @ St. Claude
New Orleans, August 29, 2006

Ruthie Monday XXV

Up North Friends

While we were Up North, our friends Dan and Annika came to visit us with their two wicked beautiful girls.

Dan + Annika =

Franziska &

Esmé

More Maine

This is view from a blueberry hill somewhere between Ellsworth and Belfast. What you see in the distance is Acadia National Park with its mountains rising into the low lying mist of the morning on a New England cloudy day.

Ruthie Monday XXIV

Another Day, Dozing in Siberia

Caught Ruthie in her bed-muff with her cheerleader-bear-chew-toy and Cookie Monster sweatshirt (which she swiped from Mabel). This was not a set up -that's how the bear was, I swear it. She has a number of items that she drags around and uses to build up a nest, here and there around the house. The blue-fur-thing glimpsed in the picture is a favorite -always around.

She was very sleepy.

Helen Hill Open Studio

Today is New Orleans Art For Art's Sake, a day for people to walk around town checking out what is going on in galleries and artist's studios.

We went to Helen's studio today, where I made a playdough mermaid with her baby Francis and checked out her current project. Helen makes animated films and started the New Orleans Film Collective (cannot find a website).

A tiny picture from one of her films

She is making a film inspired by a bunch of flooded dresses handsewn by an ancient New Orleanian who recently passed away. She threads her own flooded story into that of this amazingly creative seamstress, named Floristine, through an examination of these dresses and imagining the woman's life.

It is called The Florestine Collection, and I cannot wait to see it completed! The story board is great.

Links about Helen Hill:
Atlantic Film-makers Cooperative
Program for Media Artists
Best of New Orleans

Last Installment: Blue Hill Fair V

Sights, Booths and Stands
Some make sense, some...well, God bless 'em, the fair comes but once a year.

Above dedicated to Miranda

CA-reeeeepy?

*sigh*

Billy sidles up to the jerky stand

I LOVE french fries. With a bunch of vinegar. And a ton of salt.

They peel them right there for you, nice and fresh.
I always get caught stealing the picture, I swear.

The log roller*

*Not a word. You know who you are, maker of tiny-man worlds

Blue Hill Fair IV: Chick-en

I'm- a-gonna get me a chicken for my yard as soon as possible. I made this impulse decision when I saw these two at the Blue Hill Fair. I'm sticking with it.


Aren't they purty? They are really good for eating bugs out of your garden and for fertilization. Just one, mind you. More would just be a little nasty on my little urban lot.

I want to build a wee hen house and get an egg a day. That's my dream. Just like my ma:

Ruthie Monday XXIII

Planting cool season plants: dianthus, petunias and broccoli.

Blue Hill Fair III

There was a food and flower competition at the fair. There were tons of jars of preserves, including venison and minced moose meat, yum.

Yeah, you read right: the pumpkin is over 400 lbs...it was so big that I didn't even notice it!

The Zinnias were bigger than Billy's head!

Blue Hill Fair II

Dedicated to Franziska, Esmé, Lulu and June: BABY ANIMALS!

baby goat
billy goats
HA!

baby cows

And grown-up Llamas!

The Blue Hill Fair I

When I visited Miane recently, I went to The Blue Hill Fair, in Blue Hill Maine.



This fair provides the setting for the book Charlotte's Web, which made me cry when I was six. I even used to pretend my name is Fern.


Speaking of pigs, I saw one:

[The family arrives at the farm to take Wilbur to the fair]

Homer Zuckerman: There he is!
Mr. Arable: That's some pig.
Lurvy: He's terrific.
Avery: He's radiant.
Mrs. Zuckerman: Well, he's clean anyway. That buttermilk certainly helped.*

Wilburs, Wilburs everywhere:



*Quote from the book, found on Wikipedia, cause I'm lazy.