Category:Travel
2010 was the first year I actually noticed these ‘only in Louisiana’ variations on Old Glory – the flag of the United States. This one was flying from the porch of a house on Napoleon Avenue in New Orleans. I’m fairly sure these flags have passed through my line of vision in prior years also but 2010, following the Saint’s Superbowl win, these flags were in relative abundance along the parade routes to the point they could not be ignored. […]
In this image, an officer of the Endymion Krewe heads towards his horse having secured some prized Endymion footballs for his sons. He holds their hands tightly – it can be easy to become separated in the mass of people.
I thought I lead off with this image of one of the Flambeau carriers from the 2010 Endymion parade. This was taken as the parade was about to set off. This guy was one of a group of about eight, all similarly dressed for their march to the Superdome. The torch is fueled from a propane tank secured to the frame on his back.
I was struck by the lemon-yellow building in this scene. It sits at the entrance to the leisure boat marina in Palacios, Texas. In the background is part of the fishing fleet – shrimp, crabs and oysters being the main business in this town. The yellow building typifies one of the things I love about the houses that line the Texas Gulf coast – bright, vibrant, saturated colors. The blue sails and awnings and the red covers on the boats […]
It’s called Guano Point because some intrepid explorer noticed a bunch of bats flying in and out of caves in the canyon walls. So they set up an operation, building gantries at the top of the canyon and scaling down the cliffs to the caves, so they could harvest the guano.