New Orleans photos, group one: general photos

[valis2]

Eleven pics under the cut. Wrought iron, cool buildings, etc.

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This fence was around a palace:



This palace, to be exact:

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This is the view from within Café du Monde:



This is a view of the other side, in the rain:



The weather was quite quixotic. These pics were taken only moments apart, and yet...heavy rain vs. sunshine.

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Someone's front porch.



A gate, further down the street.



Some of the houses have vents built into the walls:



I love this one. It's so beautiful.

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The round windows are unbelievable.



Gorgeous building. julian_black was talking about how the city is half gorgeous, half dilapidated, and wow, she was so totally correct.



Next to this building was this:





And past that was a building with windows broken out. In fact, there were many buildings with businesses in them on the street level, and pigeons roosting in the upper levels.

A detail from one of the buildings:

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And my favorite shot from the city:

Comments

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting all these! The voodoo place looks fun. Did you go inside?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Actually, we didn't. We were on our way back, and, as I'm not really that into voodoo, we ended up only walking past.

Funny thing is, Marie Laveau is this major voodoo priestess, and to make people think she had powers over life and death, she stopped seeing people when she got older and had her daughter see them instead, so they'd think she wasn't aging. ha!

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

lol I love the idea of using her daughter to see customers. A good businesswoman!