Take your daughters to work day

Well, it's Saturday and we were all in the mood for a romp. I did not get around to the touring with camera I had hoped because, when I finally shut down the computer, I had put in 7.5 hours at the office, and that with a late start.

But the girls were not about to stay at home if there was a chance I might go gallivanting about town.

So here are Belle (left) and Maggie (right), checking out the scenery from my cubicle - and pretty nice scenery it is. Regular viewers will have seen this view here before but the ladies were scoping it all out - and keeping me company. It was a skeleton crew, about ten of us when I came in.


I could not deprive them of a glance out the opposite side of the building, so here they are looking toward the riverfront and watching a tug pulling a barge along the Mississippi.


We took a slightly different path back toward the car park and caught sight of this moderne decor and cool poster below it.

What fun!

And how about these insets in the sidewalk? I really don't know, but I am guessing they mark where very early families lived in NOLA. Any locals care to enlighten me? [I think Mimi may have said something about these but, having very little in the way of short-term auditory memory, I cannot recall for sure.]


This one reads "Pelican Homestead." I forgot to enhance the contrast before posting. It has a partner inset for those approaching in the opposite direction, not that many feet further down the sidewalk.

I could try looking it up on the web, but then I would not get stories from folks who have lived or visited here, and stories are more fun.

I took other photos today, all architectural details, but I am pausing now.

Oh, btw, the girls think I am rather a silly bear. They think this all the time, as do all my children, but especially now. Belle, being a river horse, and Maggie being a dolphin, don't see what the anxiety I have about being below water level is all about. But then, Maggie has never been in a hurricane and if Belle was it has been many years since.

More on water levels in NOLA during Katrina later.

--the BB

The levees

No, we're not talking about "American Pie" and driving our Chevy to the levee when the levee was dry. We're talking about Hurrican Katrina and when the levees failed. So how are the folks in NOLA doing these days? Rebuilt yet? Safe yet? Hardly.

This video comes via Ormonde Plater. He calls it "the video the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) doesn't want you to see."



You can read about the controversy at his site.
--the BB