New Orleans

These are long overdue but it's the first chance I got to proof these pictures! My apologies in advance for the bad photography but.... Madeline + moving tour van+trying to learn manual mode+ lots of shadows one second then bright light the next=crappy pictures

View from the Westin

Upper Ninth Ward...notice the dull yellow line near the base of the building? Now add about 3 feet and that's how high the flooding was in that area. Not "too bad" right?

Yup, FEMA trailers are still there.

Welcome to the Lower Ninth Ward. Look at the levee. Real sturdy huh? Ohh and that grass on the left hand side...well needless to say, nothing is going to be built there again.

Other side of the levee. You see neighborhood after neighborhood like this....(did I mention you get a fine if your grass is tall? ) Nice modern art? Nope, there are the water levels after the storm surge. Don't believe the water was that high? Look closely at this building...see the different color in the brick. Add three feet and that's how high the water was in the Lower Ninth Ward. The numbers on the house represent the date the house was inspected, the unit that came ...and on the bottom middle was the number no one wanted to see...the number dead inside the house (in this house 5).

Brad Pitt "Green" homes. Personally....I think it's wonderful he's helping....but the architecture does not fit this area at all!!

And then there is the beauty...Garden District has some major $$$ ...ohh and it doesn't flood either!

Top: Anne Rice's home (over 2 million...we asked..hehe) Bottom: Where Payton and Eli Manning grew up and parents still live

Just a pretty home :)

The French Quarter

(we ate at Muriel's and highly recommend it...my diet hated me for it. Three words Bourbon Bread Pudding)

And Finally.... The Dog Whisperer at our conference