Here I go again trying to post photos -- why does it never seem to work the same way twice? Tomorrow I'll try the same thing with the photos from my iPhone.
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| Me by the riverfront -- it was so cold I had to buy a sweatshirt to add under my windbreaker and over my sweater and socks to keep my toes warm! |
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| Art everywhere -- Donna and Julie admiring local art near Jackson Square. Julie bought a lot. I restrained myself, but somehow spent all my money anyway! |
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| It is required to have coffee and beignets here, but once is enough. | My most interesting breakfast was a baked sweet potato with pecan syrup and powdered chocolate at the French Market. |
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| Lots of walking. These are Donna's and my happy shadows on the moonwalk near the Cafe du Monde. |
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| Steve and I went on a Eco Swamp Tour -- saw gators, wild canaries, snakes, turtles, a giant spider and a great blue heron, but you had to be pretty fast to get a picture of any of them. |
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| This fishing boat was blown up the Pearl River from the Gulf by Hurricane Katrina, and is still there seven years later. We also toured the lower Ninth Ward, but it was too depressing to take pictures. |
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| Shrimp boat -- I ate a lot of seafood: shrimp, crawfish, crab, and a fish called Drumm, and tasted mussels -- I wasn't quite brave enough to try turtle or gator sausage. |
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| We were told this was near the place where they filmed Beasts of the Southern Wild, athough it looked pretty tame! |
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| Swamp wildflowers. We learned the difference between a swamp and a marsh and a bayou and a slough. It was beautiful and creepy and mysterious. |
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| I'm glad I didn't have to find my way around. |
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| Cypress trees and their "knees" (actually part of the roots.) |
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| This great blue heron was called George by the boat captain, totally unfazed by passing tourists. |
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