[more to follow...]

[NOLA]
I'm back.


Eve's in love

Gone Fishing...In New Orleans. See you Monday.

I am going through lots of old photos and finding pairs and twins and bright colors I like. And hair standing on its end.

Listening to:

Tucker Mayer
Anni Rossi
Rollin Hunt

I predict we will hear a lot of them very soon.

The Diorama
This is a diorama from the City of David called "The First 30 Years." Made from carved balsa blocks, sprigs of plastic trees, and Christmas lights, the diorama was made by James Baxter, who was one of the colony electricians before he died. I love the diorama: it sits in the center of the museum. James told me that making this mini-city was his hobby. He used a clicking wheel to roll up the sides and seams of each building, in order to make it to perfect scale. When you stare down at it, you feel like the weird moon-shape circle with glasses that kids draw, to mean "God." You don't feel like God--just like that orb with glasses in the corner.

This is Augustus' ascension day as well. Most likely, he came in an Easter basket for some bratty child, and the parents threw him in a backyard once they realized buns don't like to be squeezed. He was found several months later in a backyard in Staten Island. It's not easy to survive in the wild, when you are at the very bottom of the food chain.

Augustus, I am so glad I found you--in a small cage stuffed in the back of the East New York Animal Shelter, next to a few snakes and a duck. You're a survivor. Happy Easter