Marie Laveau Apartments, New Orleans

How awesome that I got to stay at the (restored) apartments New Orlean's most famous and revered voodoo priestess used to let out.

Typical of old French Quarter apartments is a courtyard with a fountain.

Treme Gumbo Festival, New Orleans

My first day in New Orleans. Cup of steaming gumbo in one hand, camera in the other, watching the brass band play Casanova and the people enjoying themselves as they danced in Louis Armstrong park. There were people b-boying in Congo Square nearby, a woman selling art made from broken pieces of the house her brother lost to Katrina, passers-by saying 'Hey, Baby' like they meant it...Sunday was all good.

I love Midtown, so shoot me... (random shots)

 I've always wondered what Burt Bacharach saw out of his window:

If you see me walking down the street and I start to cry each time we meet...

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

 Get ready to shove some kids outta the way!

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

How do you get to Carnegie Hall again? Say it with me. 

 Eloise at the Plaza

It's The ROCKETTES!

The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular! What a treat!

Niigata

Oppo-ji temple, Niigata

 

View from my room

Bonafide geisha from Asakusa who was brought to Niigata for the event

Candy made from fermented rice and sweet rice drink
(water from mountain streams are used to irrigate Niigata's rice fields)

Oppo-ji

View from ryokan window