Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Yes, it is Christmas
Mountain lodge.
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Jesus...
funeral ran long,... Had him in the ground but folks just kept on
talkin'...")
He videotaped me on his phone when I was playing washboard and offered
to email me the video. Now I am on a priest's mailing list...
Slave cabins at Laura Plantation
cabin. This plantation had 70 cabins stretching over two miles down
the plantation.
These cabins were occupied until the 70's with plantation workers who
were descendants of slave labourers.
Laura Plantation
Louisiana. The white antebellum style plantation homes you often
picture were owned by whites (defined as those with no more than
1/64th African heritage). Creoles of mixed European, West African and
Indian blood would paint their plantations in bright colours to
distinguish them.
Playing the washboard
Plantation on the Mississippi.
Amazing delicacies
Mississippi levee in the background.
Had a spicy alligator burger and a bit of zydeco music with fiddler
Waylon Thibodeaux.
Thankfully, felines were not on the menu...
Jazz Brunch at Arnaud's
amazing brunch in the Quarter. Banjo, standup and sax.
Cajun And Creole Cuisine
neighbourhood, New Orleans...
Ovens
off Basin Street. Multiple family members are added as they pass
away, with the minimum "year and a day" rule, after which the tomb can
be opened for the next member to add. The entombed will be reduced to
dust in about a year in the intense heat. You have to be Catholic to
be buried in a cemetary in New Orleans...
Conversion
increase the selling price of homes in the French Quarter.
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