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In the Pines
“Black girl, black girl, don’t lie to me Where did you stay last night? I stayed in the pines where the sun never shines And shivered when the cold wind blows” Grove of Pine Trees, Avery Island...
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Le Petit Baton Rouge
Somewhere miles deep underground the dried salt remnant of an ancient sea is being squeezed by the unimaginable weight of the Mississippi delta building up above. All the loose mud from Ohio and...
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Shoes on a Wire
Photograph taken on the University of Louisiana Lafayette campus near the Intramural Athletic Fields, Lafayette, Louisiana. This is a relatively untouched photograph. After I put up this entry I...
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Old Barn
Old Barn (click to enlarge) Messing around with a RAW image using HDR and the Luminance HDR (formerly Qtpfsgui) program. I know everybody is sick of these overprocessed, oversaturated, unrealistic...
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Old Barn (again)
Old Barn (click to enlarge) Another picture of another old barn. This one is from pretty much the same spot as the one I posted the other day, taken only a few seconds later in another direction. It...
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Azaleas
On our visit to Lafayette we could not help but notice the beauty of all the azaleas blooming across south Louisiana. No matter how humble your little cottage might be, you can have all the color you...
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St. Vincent’s Guest House
Finding a hotel in another city on the Internet is a funny thing… it’s not so much like looking for something blind as it is trying to make a decision, a choice, based on secondhand information where...
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Hot Sauce Overdose
Halloween, French Quarter, New Orleans Tabasco, Crystal, or Louisiana I don’t think there is such a thing as too much hot sauce, but this guy will disagree. Not even the cool Mardi Gras beads could...
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Cities of the Dead
New Orleans Cemetery – Saint Louis #1 On our last trip to the Big Easy, we signed up for a New Orleans Cemetery tour from Tulane University. The Cemeteries of New Orleans are famous – when you visit...
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What I learned this week, February 8, 2013
The 10 Most Useless Kitchen Gadgets I’m afraid there are a couple of these I wouldn’t mind having. I will not tell you which ones. California vs. Texas: Wild West Shootout But behind the posturing lies...
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FEMA Trailers
Thank You Uncle Sam Thank You Uncle Sam, FEMA trailers, Opelousas, Louisiana I was driving to New Orleans, moving down Interstate 49, south of Alexandria. My plan was to get on Interstate 10 in...
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Timber
There are a handful of modern sculptures scattered across the various quads on the Tulane campus in New Orleans. One I noticed the first time, more than four years ago, that we took Lee there for a...
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Bike Riding in the Big Easy
My Xootr Swift folding bike on the bike route over Interstate 10 in New Orleans. Downtown and the Superdome are in the background. We had a trip to New Orleans planned for Tulane Graduation. Lee...
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A Month of Short Stories 2014, Day 3 – Regret
A year ago, for the month of June, I wrote about an online short story each day for the month. It seemed like a good idea at the time. My blog readership fell precipitously and nobody seemed to give a...
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On the Bayou
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh Son of a gun we’ll have big fun on the bayou Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and...
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New Orleans Writing Marathon Day Two, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 One snippet of what I wrote that day. The first time Jambalaya Joe cooked for us he made – of course – jambalaya. A great black cast iron...
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Eating Barbequed Iguana
I’m on a mexican radio I wish I was in Tiajuana Eating barbequed iguana I’d take requests on the telephone I’m on a wavelength far from home I feel a hot wind on my shoulder I dial it in from south of...
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No One Had Responded To Its Message
“On the prow of the wagon, in an attempt to attract business among the Quarterites, Ignatius taped a sheet of Big Chief paper on which he had printed in crayon: TWELVE INCHES (12) OF PARADISE. So far...
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Not Cleveland
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” ― Tennessee Williams New Orleans, Louisiana View out of my son’s apartment window, New Orleans.
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