New Orleans Spanish Moss On Live Oaks

Live Oaks and Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) are an odd New Orleans Couple. They have gotten along for hundreds of years and remain very compatible. With silver gray threadlike stems it hangs in long graceful streams from the trees. It has long been associated with the beauty of the trees of the Deep South.

Dripping with ghostly looking spanish moss, these live oaks are a beautiful sight to see when you are walking through the over 1,300 acres that make up The Big Easy's City Park. Oak Trees With branches that soar into the sky and reach out to touch the ground. They have survived numerous hurricanes; they sheltered the original Native American inhabitants that lived along the banks of Bayou St. John; they were witness to many duels of honor right into the 1800′s. These live oaks were watching over the bayous and swamps long before the French and Spanish showed up to settle the area.

Driving through NOLA's City Park on a weekday (especially during the school year), you can always find an unoccupied place to stake a claim under one of these magnificent trees. Spread a blanket, sit back, relax and let history wash over you.

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New Orleans Happy Houses

One of the funnest places to go house-peeping is none other than New Orleans, Louisiana. After Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, there has been renewal and rebuilding taking place, giving houses - and whole neighborhoods - a renewed sense of pride and history. It's amazing what a new coat of paint can do to awaken one's spirit.

New Orleans is the city that brought us Tabasco sauce, Po'boys, poker and Jazz - Jazz being a word meaning "energetic or vigorous". Have a look at some of these colorful New Orleans homes that really embody the VIVE vibe of the historic Cajun city. Interestingly, New Orleans Louisiana has the most National Historic Districts of any other city in the United States - 20 in all.

Kudos to the resilience and creative spirit of the people of NOLA!

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New Orleans Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

The above-ground tombs in New Orleans cemeteries are often referred to as "cities of the dead." Enter the cemetery gates, and you will be greeted by rusty decorative ironwork and blinded by sun-bleached tombs. Crosses and statues jutting from tomb surfaces cast contrasting shadows, adding to the sense of mystery. Votive candles line tombs on holidays, reminding you that the dead have living relatives who still care.

Because the city of New Orleans is built on a swamp, the deceased have to be buried above ground here in elaborate stone crypts and mausoleums. Over time the cemeteries, with elaborate sculptures and other decorative artwork embellishing the tombs, have come to come to resemble small villages - the "Cities of the Dead."

Along with Spanish moss and lacy iron balconies, the cities of the dead are part of the indelible landscape of 'The Big Easy'. For many years, Nola's cemeteries were in shambles. Crypts lay open, exposing their pitiful contents - if they weren't robbed of them - bricks, shattered marble tablets, even bones, lay strewn around. Several of the worst eyesores have been cleaned up, though others still remain in deplorable shape.

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Iconic New Orleans Wrought Iron Balcony

Although we use the term "French Creole" to describe buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the fancy ironwork is not actually French at all. The wrought iron balconies of New Orleans are a Victorian elaboration on a Spanish idea. Creole blacksmiths, who were often free black men, refined the art, creating elaborate wrought iron pillars and balconies.

The old French quarter of New Orleans seems like a city of iron lace, so lavishly did the old Creole builders make use of the wrought metal. From street to street the web of iron-work runs: from house to house, from balcony to balcony. Story above story the balconies climb upward, till the house-front is veiled in iron lace. In the older homes the family initial is wrought into its balcony-grille.

The wrought iron balconies add their touch to make New Orleans' old French quarter one of the most artistically picturesque spots in America.

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