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| Rayado Sleeps in the Herbs |
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Daytrip: Longue Vue House and Gardens & Café b
Café b:
A great place to have New Orleans cuisine for lunch.
Longue Vue House and Gardens
Impressions
Inside the house you will see the following:
A great place to have New Orleans cuisine for lunch.
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| Shrimp & Artichokes with Garlic Bread: A lovely bay leaf flavor |
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| Fish of the Day with Crab Meat |
Impressions
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| Forecourt Fountain |
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| Spanish Court with Green Marble Bench |
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| Walled Garden with Edible Plants |
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| Citrus in the Walled Garden |
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| Walled Garden Water Feature Surrounded by Edible Flowers |
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| Pigeonnier |
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| Detail of Pigeonnier Bench Carving |
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| New Orleans Oak |
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| Back of the House |
Inside the house you will see the following:
curved millwork
painted millwork
libraries
art gallery that replaced kitchen
custom glass knobs with a rainbow of colors
mirrored paneled doors
a sunlight stairwell from above
sleeping porch enclosed with pivoting hidden beds for 3 children
stenciled walls
antique wallpaper installed
raised ceiling and floor
dumbwaiter in kitchenette on second floor
a wine cellar basement in New Orleans
herringbone brick floors
beautiful chandeliers
fascinating papier-mâché mother-of-pearl inlay chair
watercolors of flowers framed straight to the wall together in the
flower cutting and arranging room with 4 sinks of 4 different depths
Napoleonic bee drapes in a distant bathroom
scale built into the floor for the boys' bathroom with Formica walls
and cork flooring
lower ceiling heights for the era for they could afford the new
technology of air conditioning
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Cayenne Peppers Drying
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| Cayenne Peppers from the Garden Drying |
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| Cayenne Peppers from the Garden Drying |
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Holy Well, 1996
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| Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996 |
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| Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996 |
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| Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996 |
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| Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996 |
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| Mary-in-a-Greenhouse |
©1996 D. Moss
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Little Kittens
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| Michael's Foot & Baby Commodore, October 1996 |
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| Dothan & Commodore, October 1996 |
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| Commodore & Dothan, December 1996 |
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| Flash, 1999 |
Jesus loves the little kittens
All the kittens of the world
Red and yellow
Black and white
They are precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little kittens of the world
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| Meeroww!, December 1999 |
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| Sophie, 2001 |
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| Sophie, 2001 |
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| Commodore-Cat Sleeping Beneath Lawn-Mower, 2002 |
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| One of Stray/Woodland Cat Maggie's Kittens, 2002 |
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| Maggie's Minnie, 2002 |
Monday, October 6, 2014
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Portrait of Moi, October 2014
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| I'm patiently waiting for the fluff on the right to grow to match the fluff on the left. |