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Detail, details. It's the details that can make all the difference. The ventilator in this picture has a cast metal rose at the very top of it. One of the interesting details that make these ventilators... |
The doors have eyes. The shutters on this French Quarter doorway have the most lovely patina and the holes give the house a presence. What ghosts live behind those doors to peer out upon the life in the... |
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Why erect an ugly billboard when you can just paint your advertisement on the side of a building. For decades people have been exposed to this Uneeda Biscuit advertisement. I am guessing that if Uneeda... |
Look up! There are all kinds of interesting things to find on the roofs of New Orleans! Clay chimney extensions, tin ventilators, and ceramic doo-dads to break the monotony of an otherwise straight and... |
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Tucked right next to a Maroon house is this pair of shutters, dove grey in a sea of muted blue. |
They say that here in the French Quarter everybody has an angle. That can also be said about most fo the buildings as well this particular one has a lean to the left. This house is lucky, the walls are... |
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Looking like a pointed witch's hat, this rusted ventilator holds its own between two chimnies on a steep slate roof. |
If you look closely, the bricks here in the French Quarter are fascinating. If you look really close and for a long time, people will begin to wonder about you. So save yourself the social faux pas and... |
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What a lovely patina has been earned by this no parking sign and the gate it lives on. It has been there for years and has been painted around several times. Mmmm, rust against green, how lovely! |
How balanced and Euclidian this house is. A lamp post matching the chimney, smack in the middle, nice contrasting colors of the walls and shutters. Look it isn't leaning at all! Did I really take this... |
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A gate between two buildings seems to lead to a land of blue sky. Is this the rumored gate that opens directly from the French Quarter to Montana? Ah it might be worth it to peek through the spaces between... |
Heat and humidity are the friend of the person who likes taking pictures of weathered paint on walls. Combined with the slight shifting that almost all structures in the French Quarter are subject to,... |
