November 3

Warehouse District
New Orleans


photographed 4.10.2010

April 14

Katrina-damaged house, Caffin Avenue, New Orleans.

See the word "dog" spray painted on the left side of the front steps?  That's leftover from rescue teams who worked the area in the days following the hurricane and the floods.

You can go here http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2009/moye/1a.htm to learn more about the spray-painted codes that you can still see on houses throughout the city.

Lower Ninth Ward
New Orleans, Louisiana


photographed 4-13-2010

April 13

Abandoned building at the Milne School for Boys, nearly five years after Katrina.

The school, for troubled and needy boys, opened in New Orleans's Gentilly neighborhood in 1933.  It was founded as a biracial facility, but due to segregation, two of everything was built.  The facility ceased operations as a residential center in 1986, although it did continue to offer after school, summer, and other community programs for boys.

No word on where it currently operates from, or even if it is still operating at all.


New Orleans, Louisiana

April 12

A rather subdued building in the Faubourg Marigny.  

Marigny is interesting.

The "one way" sign has been altered and now reads ONE DAY.  Above it, a second sign proclaims "Think that you might be wrong."

I watched a man with a tuba walking up the street, toward the Quarter.  There wasn't a parade or anything, just this one guy and a tuba.  I thought to myself, "That's not something you see every day."

Only minutes later, I was proved wrong, when a different guy with a different tuba walking the other way on the street ambled by.


Yes, Marigny is interesting.

Corner of Frenchmen and Royal Streets
New Orleans, Louisiana

April 11

Intersection of Canal Street and Baronne Street
New Orleans, Louisiana

April 10

A mausoleum at the Metarie Cemetery.  The cemetery, which was previously a horse racetrack, has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary  in the city.  It has been used as a cemetery since the 1860s.

New Orleans, Louisiana

April 9

When we first moved to New Orleans, in 1982, we discovered a restaurant called Fitzgerald's.  It was at West End, on pilings above Lake Pontchartrain.  The first time I encountered bar-b-qued shrimp - heads, whiskers, and all - was at Fitzgerald's.

Today, all that's left of the place are the old pilings - Hurricane Katrina took care of the rest.

New Orleans, Louisiana