Ruthie Monday XVIII

Ruth-Anne's size as compared to a cookie dough, hot pepper-eared, string bean-tailed Dacshund sculpture:


I will out of town until mid-September (swooping back in for the anniversary, of course), and will be handing the baton of puppy responsibility over to Miranda. She will be providing the pictures for Ruthie Monday, which I will post from afar...

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today

Someone picked through the rubble of a house where (perhaps) a loved one last lived and separated the collections from the rest. There was a memorial, a very dead leafed/flowered memorial, marking the sight of the house the day this picture was taken. Make your own story...

yeah, and alert today.

DuckLower Ninth Ward
July 26, 2006

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today

Lower Ninth Ward
July 26, 2006

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today

The Bulldozing of Lower Ninth Ward homes:

July 26, 2006

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today, Elements of Home IV

Lower Ninth Ward
July 26, 2006

Ruthie Monday XVII

Ruth-Anne may be getting bigger, but so are the Elephant Ears.

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today, Elements of Home III

Lower Ninth Ward

Taken July 26, 2006

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today, Elements of Home II

Lower Ninth Ward

Taken July 26, 2006

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today, Elements of Home I

Lower Ninth Ward, July 26, 2006

Katrina Anniversary Pictures: New Orleans Today

Lower Ninth Ward, July 26, 2006

Ruthie Monday the XVI

To offset the New Orleans a Year Later photo series, Ruthie Monday will remain the anchor of my blogging week as always.

My garden is OUT OF CONTROL big right now. This is the time of year when I let go and let the jungle do it's thing.

Ruthie loves it, though.

Lower Ninth Ward, July 26, 2006: III

The anniversary of Katrina approaches and I am posting* current pictures of the city -not in memoriam, but as updates on our progress here in New Orleans (or lack thereof).

Our hurricane season starts in August and lasts
through October-ish and I am starting to get nervous.

*I don't spend much time at my desk during the weekends, so pictures will crop up during the work weeks to follow.

Lower Ninth Ward, July 26, 2006: II

Lower Ninth Ward, July 26, 2006

Faceless House Update

taken early November, 2005

This is the closest faceless house to mine. I have been keeping tabs on it. The thing is right in the middle of busy, busy non-flooded New Orleans. The neighborhood has been dealt terrible architectural blows this year with the collapse of mansion-sized buildings along with the burning of the Coliseum and the very, very old Baptist church on Camp Street.
Two weeks ago, I saw what appeared to be a meeting between a contractor/engineer type person and a very old man. They were standing in front of the house, on Erato. I thought, "Oh good, they will save it." There is a nice house under that asbestos siding.

Well, a few days ago, the front part of the roof, once seemingly supported by a Tupperware storage container, fell onto the sidewalk.

taken yesterday, July 24, 2006

Very sad. Maybe the man who owns it is just to old to deal? Maybe the old man lives there and was curious as to whether or not the owner would ever fix it?

There are four active mailboxes on this this house, by the way. I have seen the mailman deliver and evidence of life within. That is even more sad.


UPDATE: I was trying to get the pictures to upload all day. I wrote the text this morning and this afternoon I saw the elderly man standing across the street from the building, embracing himself, staring at the building very sadly.

Ruthie Monday XV

Miranda's back in town!

Missed you, woman.

Air Hockey at Pal's

Mid-City

Ruthie Monday XIV

How Ruth-Anne gets caught being bad.

Lichen, Ivy and Phantoms of Creeping Things

The edge of Audobon Park

The Falstaff Building

Mid City, New Orleans, on a rainy (thank God) day.

Falstaff is an American beer originally produced by Lemp Brewing in 1903 and discontinued in 2005. In its later years, it was brewed by Pabst.*


* Taken from Wikipedia