Mary Quite Contrary: January 11, 2009

new orleans

I just got back from a short trip to New Orleans and Florida with "Juicebox". We had a great time getting out of texass for a bit, and I miss NOLA so much, the good and the bad. There are so many memories for me tied to those streets of some past life I lived for 3 or so years. They are still so much a part of me. We stayed at a gorgeous hotel on St. Charles right in front of City Hall and ate at some of my favourite old haunts. It was really quiet in the city and the cold front kept us inside much of the time.

We drove the beautiful I-90 between Nola and Biloxi along the beach. Hurricane Ike literally destroyed all the old mansions on the shorefront ...wiped them clean. It's rather tragic. I picked up some broken shells and played in the sand, put my feet in the cold Atlantic very quickly and left.

This whole trip I was busy hand wireing all the antique bottles. I estimate that there will be 200+ tiny hanging bottles on my new improved Mandorla Aureola installation. They need some new Lightning inside. As soon as Papr gets back, I'm really gonna go at that piece hard and build flying buttresses, a new huge backdrop and 2 more hanging gaslight bowls....for the love of compound chopsaws and beautiful southern architecture.