The past couple of days have found me a bit in denial. I want to ride my bike. A lot. But I pulled a muscle while riding around on Saturday. I really, really want to be riding my bike, but even walking hurts, so today I faced the music and stayed off my bike. Sort of. Continue reading
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Overturned Trash Can On Levee Path In Jefferson Parish
It has been cold and windy the past few days, but that hasn’t kept me off my bike. I finally recovered from Mardi Gras madness and got some long rides in this weekend. I didn’t plan to go out today, but I was in a bit of a foul mood after work this afternoon and knew a ride on the new bike would make everything shinier. And it did. Continue reading
Post-Druid Parade Clean Up at Magazine and Bellecastle
So, the parades have started again. There was just one tonight–Ancient Druids–and they were following a new Uptown route, starting up at Jefferson and Magazine. I decided to hop on Rhoda and head up there to see the start. the weather report was bad today, predicting rain and hail, so the NOPD moved the parade start time up to 5:45 from 6:30. That meant the parade went off around, well, 6:30. Continue reading
Washing Machine at Soniat and Willow
I love New Orleans weather in January. Yesterday it was windy and wet with a tornado warning. Today it’s all sunny blue skies with just the right nip in the air. I took Willow home today rather than St. Charles and was surprised by how much has actually changed in the last month. Continue reading
Vacuum Cleaner on Decatur
It is a windy night as the outer bands of Ike run through New Orleans. My thoughts are with folks in Galveston and Houston and all along the Texas Gulf coast. I didn’t watch CNN during Gustav, but find myself riveted now that the the storm is not putting me in direct danger; it’s as if I can finally bear to look now that I’ve got a little distance. B Continue reading
Houses in Central City
I took a day off from riding my bike yesterday because my knees were begging me. Fine, I told them. Fine. Continue reading
Birthday River Ride
Today is my birthday, so I gave myself the gift of a ride along the Mississippi River levee. Continue reading
Abandoned couches in Central City
I rode through Central City on my way home from the gymnasium today, this time on Willow. Now, Willow is only a few blocks from St. Charles, but the difference in what these two streets look like couldn’t be more obscene. I rode by this house and its couch sitting on the curb and wondered where the couch came from. Is this a couch recently (or long ago but ignored) removed from a flooded home? Or is this just a couch on the street, as could be on any street in any city? Continue reading
The Mississippi River Levee
This afternoon I took my bicycle for a ride along the Mississippi river levee. This is some of the highest ground in the city, and its flow is responsible for much of the shape and spatial organization of the city itself. 
I live only two blocks from the river, but I could easily forget it is even there. Continue reading
What I Saw Riding My Bike Around Today 