Adventures in and around New Orleans - with photos

We've enjoyed these beautiful live oaks (live oaks stay green all year, the new leaves just replace the old ones, hence the term "live oak" throughout the south.  The Spanish Moss doesn't kill the trees, it's related to the orchid family.  Henry Ford used the moss to fill the upholstered seats of the Model T leading to the first automobile recall.  Seems the chiggers in the Spanish moss caused lots of unhappy, itchy, riders.

Laura Plantation, an unusual example of a Creole Southern Plantation House.  This one was occupied 9 months a year, during sugar cane growing and processing, afterwhich the family moved back to New Orleans for the social season lasting 3 months.  Fully restored main house.

Slave quarters.  Several of the buildings were occupied by slave descendants until 1976!

Fine example of what we think of as New Orlenas architecture in French Quarter.  (Omit the cars.)

Had the strangest instructions on our GPS today when the voice in the box instructured us to drive onto the Ferry.  We did.  For $1. we were able to ferry across the Mississippi river. Were we surprised.

Look at the crowds this street entertainer troupe drew as they performed opposite Jackson Square in New Orleans French Quarter.  We estimate they took in between $800 and $1000 and were worth it.

Took a ride on the Mississippi to the site of the 1814 battle between the US and Britain (we won).

Beautiful Jackson Square, New Orleans.  Catholic Church in the background.

To own property you had to be a Catholic until 1903.

You may have heard the rumor that Stu and I are thinking about moving.  How do you like the house we bought.  It does need a few things, like indoor plumbing and electricity, but it is a stone's throw from the Mississippi and abuts a sugar cane plantation.  Very picturesque and peaceful.  Y'all be sure to come down for a visit.