Noteworthy in Nola

We took a quick trip out along the Gulf and this shrimper just stopped not far from where we were sitting to rinse out his nets & get everything stowed away.

I know, I know. I’ve got to find something cheery to post about…but this is pretty much New Orleans in a nutshell. Give us something awful and we’ll find a way to bring people together and if that isn’t the definition of ‘lemons into lemonade,’ I don’t know what is.

Beth alerted me to the newly formed Krewe of Dead Pelicans, which was having a Second Line this afternoon in the Central Business District. It wasn’t a protest, exactly, nor a fundraiser… I think it was mostly a chance to have a community outpouring of the rage and despair we’ve all been dealing with.

And the costumes, of course, were amazing, especially since they were just thrown together. A band played, and everyone marched on.

Click to see the larger images:

And a brief video of the beginning of the Second Line:
(again, sorry about the audio- I’m quickly discovering that it doesn’t take much to overwhelm the Nikon’s mic, but once the police motorcycles move on the audio’s okay)

So when I heard that you could drop off hair, fur and nylon at (of all places) the Ritz Carlton, I was a little confused. It’s meant to absorb the spilled oil in the Gulf, and while anything that helps is worthwhile, I couldn’t imagine how stuffing used pantyhose with cut up hair was going to help.

Here’s how, and it’s all pretty amazing:

Crossposted to DreamyDreams