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The palette of colors people use to paint their houses here in the French Quarter of New Orleans is broad, delightful. Sometimes it seems neighbors take into consideration the colors of the adjoining building... |
The the terra cotta pipes that finish these chimneys are so interesting. The ends are broken in shards as if some giant pigeon tried once to roost on them and crushed them with it's weight. Perhaps a gigantic... |
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Ever-so-busy, an archeology of paint unveils the story of this wall. How many different colors do you see in the layers? How many years pass between a fresh coat and a new color? When, next, will the paint... |
The stucco has crumbled and exposes some of the underlying brick work in this building. I like the deep turquoise of the doorway right next to this wall. |
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Chimneys and Ventilators, chimneys and ventilators! What's with that? Well, I know the ventilator thing started when I was shooting lots of barns in the midwest. There are a lot of interesting ventilators... |
If you can manage to slip through this skinny door you will pass through a long dark passage almost as narrow as the door itself. The dark passage has it's own rewards, for at the end if it is a lovely,... |
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Yikes! it is one thing to paint your walls pink. It is quite another to paint the doors within that wall a bright green. While this might not be something people in Boston do, it is a practice the folk... |
Like a pink slip under a green dress the previous color of paint peeks out where the top coat of paint has weathered and peeled on these dark green window shutters. Like all things, they may be worse for... |
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Look up, look down, make your eyes move all around, All kinds of nifty things can be found. This little segnent of wall is one of them. Decades and decades of weather and wear have pulled and worn the... |
The rear part of a compound in the French Quarter of New Orleans. This part of the building was originally built for slaves. Slave quarters are recognizable by looking for a few things. They are generally... |
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Here we are now on Bourbon street. The plaster "holes" on this wall are carefully manicured. However the tourists probably don't realize this and say "Oooh, wow look at this Old Wall" then they go in and... |
The geometries of roof lines can be so interesting. With the straight lines broken by chimneys, ventilators and the various doohickies that are to be found on roofs here, every roof has the potential to... |
