sWINE BAR in NOLA

Our favorite sWINE BAR ever!!!
Except Thistle Meats, of course....

Soft Shoe Shoe Repairs

Maybe Meaning well but Misplaced

Wherever there is now an open lot, there was once a wooden home filled with a family, pets, food and friends. Now, the Ninth Ward is the site of a few architectural experiments in "green" building that have NO ONE sitting on the porch, no backyard BBQs and only the thinnest homage to the shotgun designs of the early 1900s.
Note the line on the second story windows of the brick house: the water line when the owners were rescued.

Love NOLA food

And our AirBnB host-carpenter-engineer-cyclist-swing-dancing-chef, Michael Wong

Re: ReNew Orleans?

On May 21, 2016, at 12:36 AM, Tina Hittenberger <freckle469@comcast.net> wrote:

More than ten years after Katrina, a humid cloud of uncertainty and resignation still hangs over the city, the river and cemeteries.
Formerly densely populated suburbs have gaping, empty lots where home were ripped off their foundations. It looks like a war zone under most of the freeway overpasses.
And then there is the VERY complicated issue of clouded title - transfers often went unrecorded for decades and countless records were destroyed in the flood. Who owns properties that have been abandoned? Who is responsible for maintaining them? And if one WOULD want to purchase one, how is it done?  What courage and vision does one need? Maybe just resilience, a tolerance for graft and a willingness to party.
We were told that 4,000 costumed New Orleans residents just celebrated "Sink Hole de Mayo" by throwing a party near a HUGE pothole near the freeway. With music, of course.

ReNew Orleans?

More than ten years after Katrina, a humid cloud of uncertainty and resignation still hangs over the city, the river and cemeteries.
Formerly densely populated suburbs have gaping, empty lots where home were ripped off their foundations. It looks like a war zone under most of the freeway overpasses.
And then there is the VERY complicated issue of clouded title - transfers often went unrecorded for decades and countless records were destroyed in the flood. Who owns properties that have been abandoned? Who is responsible for maintaining them? And if one WOULD want to purchase one, how is it done? What courage and vision does one need? Maybe just resilience, a tolerance for graft and a willingness to party.
We were told that 4,000 costumed New Orleans residents just celebrated "Sink Hole de Mayo" by throwing a party near a HUGE pothole near the freeway. With music, of course.

Royal Street

Tennessee Williams Country. There is a story in here somewhere.
This is a color photo.

New Orleans walk

And a rest on the paaaaahwch.

Ninth Ward

If pigs could fly...
In New Orleans, actually they do.

Lunchtime in Jackson Square

We must have walked 15 miles the first day, this guy must have played 10 songs for every mile we walked.

El Jaleo New Orleans Style

SFMOMA: Stairs,doors,walls and floors

Calder and Super Catchers at SFMOMA

Between our new SFMOMA and the Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco is going to give Mother MOMA in Manhattan a run for the money. So thrilling to have a front row seat in these burgeoning times!
Art is alive in the (formerly) Wild West.

Chuck Close up close at SFMOMA

Torn Paper circles