Gaze into my fire. It's better than television. I'm present. I ponder. I reflect and seize the moment. And, it keeps me warm. (Who cares if I smell like a pork steak all winter long!) I'm realizing that Mardi Gras is wrapping up in New Orleans at the moment. It won't be midnight for another 20 minutes or so there. How many times did I stand on Bourbon Street and watch them shut it down? You find Police, Sheriffs, walking, on motorcycles, on horseback, in automobiles, all in formation, with flashing lights and loud speakers announcing: "Mardi Gras is over... it's time to go home." My last Mardi Gras was in 2006. Dali, Sam and I moved here in May of that year. I leave you with a shot from my last Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Books on the Beam
- Sheron Long: Dog Trots Globe (*****)
- Jeffrey Penn May: Where the River Splits (*****)
- Joseph Joffo: A Bag of Marbles (*****)
- Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf-A Story of Life for All Ages (*****)
- Richard Bach: Illusions-The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (*****)
- Thad Carhart: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank-Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier (*****)
- Rick Jarow: Creating the Work You Love (*****)
Vernissage-2009
- Welcome to La Galerie Dans la Cave
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I hope some time to experience New Orleans myself, anyway are you back in overalls now or still hosepants :) ? my self sitting in overalls, in a hotel room preparing lectures for 15 hungry library students in a small town up here in the North with a lot of snow and delayed flights etc. but I look at the bright side of life as you do as well !:) niels
Posted by: Niels Windfeld Lund | February 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Hey Niels-I'm back and forth but loving being in my overalls out on the land that I'm clearing. It's nice to see progress and success somewhere when everything around you moves like molasses. Hope you have/had a great class-Love, Laury
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | February 23, 2012 at 12:54 AM
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Posted by: Steward Bertrand | February 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Hey Steward-all I have is words here and no picture. I'm wondering if it's the same photo you posted to Jean on FB? Hope you're doing well and everyone is recovering from the festivities! Love-Moi
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | February 24, 2012 at 10:17 PM