Somehow I decapitated the LaLaurie house at the end of my block. Fitting, as it's a haunted house with a gruesome past. Nick Cage owns it now - it's usually empty but tonight was lighted up - maybe he's at home?
I have a fondness for this brick house a few doors down - we met one of the inhabitants (it's been condo-ized) one night. She was standing in the street drinking a martini for no particular reason.
Denizens of the Quarter actually use their balconies though you couldn't tell from this photo:
A lot of them have elaborate vegetation:
Here's a denizen using the balcony at Muriels -
which overlooks Jackson Square and the Cathedral:
They grow bananas here, making this, I suppose, the northernmost banana republic. While I was taking this picture, a man came up and asked me to photograph him. When I ignored him, he got incensed and attacked the banana tree. That's pretty much the only unpleasantness I've witnessed, and no-one but the bananas was in danger. (You can see the Cathedral behind the bananas.)
The Quarter is bounded by the Mississippi:
- a shot taken from the Steamboat Natchez.
There's also a non-touristy, free ferry to Algiers. You can see the wharves behind - according to the announcer on the Steamboat Natchez, before the storm about a third of the coffee drunk in the US came through these docks.
I have a fondness for this brick house a few doors down - we met one of the inhabitants (it's been condo-ized) one night. She was standing in the street drinking a martini for no particular reason. 
Denizens of the Quarter actually use their balconies though you couldn't tell from this photo:
A lot of them have elaborate vegetation:
Here's a denizen using the balcony at Muriels -
which overlooks Jackson Square and the Cathedral:
They grow bananas here, making this, I suppose, the northernmost banana republic. While I was taking this picture, a man came up and asked me to photograph him. When I ignored him, he got incensed and attacked the banana tree. That's pretty much the only unpleasantness I've witnessed, and no-one but the bananas was in danger. (You can see the Cathedral behind the bananas.)
The Quarter is bounded by the Mississippi:
- a shot taken from the Steamboat Natchez.
There's also a non-touristy, free ferry to Algiers. You can see the wharves behind - according to the announcer on the Steamboat Natchez, before the storm about a third of the coffee drunk in the US came through these docks.