[Boo Boo]

5/5/2020

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[Boo Boo]

5/4/2020

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“That’s no moon”

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[Boo Boo]

5/1/2020

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[Boo Boo]

4/27/2020

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Nothing says NOLA During COVID quite as much as a socially distant birthday celebration with Kermit Ruffins playing along with the Happy Birthday serenade

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[Boo Boo]

4/26/2020

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[Boo Boo]

4/22/2020

When your city has very little dirt and gravel, sometimes you have to get a bit creative

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Audubon Park has a little bit of dirt. Mostly used by pedestrians, but there are a few of us who ride on it

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Golf course is closed, so the cart paths make for some fun riding – and there’s some gravel mixed in with the paved portions

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Audubon Zoo is closed, but you can still go see the giraffes

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The St Charles Streetcar Line tracks make for the longest stretch of dirt

[Boo Boo]

4/16/2020

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[Boo Boo]

4/15/2020

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[Boo Boo]

4/14/2020

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I wish y’all could smell this photo. The Uptown jasmine bloom each spring is the best smell in the world

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Went out for a bottle of Scotch…..hit the pandemic shopping motherlode!

[Boo Boo]

4-13-2020

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Yesterday’s winds did this house in. Built in the 1870s. Thankfully it wasn’t occupied as it was being renovated.

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I really don’t know what to make of this house

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St Charles Avenue

[Boo Boo]

4/7/2020

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[Boo Boo]

That said, those benches and that entire sidewalk area would normally be bustling. The takeout line at Cafe du Monde is regularly 100+. Jackson Square, the park in front of the cathedral, would be full and the fence around it occupied by artists. Bourbon Street (the last photo in my first post) would be packed full of people

It’s eerie. Beautiful, but eerie.

[Boo Boo]

Nope, I’m taking my rides right after I get done working. Head out sometime between 5 and 6 each night, so right during rush hour. I live about 3 miles from The Quarter – nowadays that’s about a 12-13 minute ride with the lack of traffic, whereas it would usually be 20+.

People are very much complying with the stay-at-home restrictions. The only folks you see out are essential workers, folks exercising, and folks doing essential errands. There have been a few reports here and there of the police breaking up large gatherings, but not many at all.

Hunkering down is familiar to people down here due to hurricanes, so this isn’t all that unusual – other than the duration of it.

As far as the tourists – there are none to be seen. The hotels are sitting at less than 5% occupancy. (as they are most everywhere) Most of that occupancy is by residents isolating from their families for whatever reason (many health care workers in particular are staying in hotels rather than going home), out-of-town health-care personnel who have come here to help (we’re the largest hotspot in terms of cases per capita in the world), and by the city housing the homeless (on a voluntary basis) for a month.

[Boo Boo]

Thanks!

A few more….

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[Boo Boo]

My mental health break each evening has been a bike ride with my camera. The silver lining in all of this is getting some (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime shots of the deserted streets. The French Quarter is particularly amazing with so few people out and about.

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I love this one – if it weren’t for those two pesky cars and the parking meter, this could be from a century ago. It’ll be going on my wall at some point.

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