Lagniappe 15 … Théo's photos

We'll leave the Sculpture Garden, but before we do, one more student wants to share the photos he took there.
Thank you Théo.

Jane

Lagniappe (14) Michèle the photographer

Still in the Sculpture Garden.  Michèle's photos, some from a different angle.

Thank you Michèle.

Jane

Sculpture Garden Lagniappe (13)

It is vacation time, but the blog lives on.
Thank you Marc for sending me these photos you took in the NOMA Sculpture Garden on May 12th, 2015.
Marc adds the information from NOMA's website.

Sculpture Park in the City Park of New Orleans

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden occupies approximately five acres in City Park adjacent to the museum.  Atypical of most sculpture gardens, this garden is located within a mature existing landscape of pines, magnolias and live oaks. The garden design creates outdoor viewing spaces within this picturesque landscape. A reconfigured lagoon bisects the site and creates two distinct halves: a mature pine and magnolia grove adjacent to the museum, and a more open area of 200-year-old, Spanish moss-laden live oaks across the lagoon near the New Orleans Botanical Gardens. The Sculpture Garden has grown from its inception in 2003 to include 64 sculptures, most of them donated to NOMA by the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation.

Here are his photos:

Thank you Marc.

Jane

Lagniappe (12) The Sculpture Garden

We only had time to briefly visit the Sculpture Garden in New Orleans City Park.  Magnificent.  Have you ever seen works of art in this kind of a decor?
http://noma.org/pages/detail/35/Background  
NOMA = New Orleans Museum of Art

Here are Yves' photos:

Nicole's photos:

And Mary's photo: 

If other students have more photos taken in this Sculpture Garden, please send them to me so that I can share them with everyone by putting them on the blog.

Jane

Still more LAGNIAPPE (11)…Théo's photos

Here are a few of Théo's pictures…We all took so many photos!

 Here we are before getting on The Natchez for our boat ride down the Mississipppi.

 Standing in line to get into Preservation Hall.  A long wait, but worth it.

 Our Cajun cousins welcomed us.

 A real "fais dodo" one evening in Lafayette.

  In the church in Saint Martinville.

 In the Acadian Village.

 This also is Louisiana. A reality.

 At Houma House Plantation.  Our nice guide.

 A painting in a restaurant.

It's time to say good-bye to Louisiana.  Jane, Denise our guide, and Joëlle.

Théo

Lagniappe 10, Bernadette, student 5

Bernadette has so much she would like to share with everyone.  Do take a moment to look at her photos and read her commentaries.

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Snapshots from New Orleans and Louisiana

We probably have seen more or less the same things, but not the same way, not with the same eyes… I was, of course, fascinated by the The French Quarter, “Le Vieux Carré”, with its beautiful lacy iron balconies and creole cottages. But I was struck by the weird mixture of old and new, of past and present in New Orleans.

On the traditional side : Preservation Hall

Half of the group standing in line waiting to be admitted in this famous “Jazz Temple” for the 8  o’clock concert, while the other starving half went searching for sandwiches and got some very hot “hotdogs” !

But New Orleans is also the Mississippi, the muddy and mighty Mississippi, “Father of Waters” and the famous “Old Man River”. It’s a kind of mythical river that we could watch from “The Moon Walk”, a few minutes away from the French Market. The Mississippi with its Twin Bridges and its paddlewheel-from-another-time riverboats.

The question is : how does this impressive paddlewheel work?

The answer is here, in the boat’s belly !  But if you need more explanations, please ask Pierre Brun.

If technology is not your cup of tea, maybe you can meditate upon this interesting example of “trilingualism and French à la Louisianaise”, picked up somewhere on the Natchez.

I was also fascinated by the gorgeous plantation houses located along the Mississippi, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Oak Alley Plantation is beyond all I could dream of when I was trying to imagine Ashley's “Twelve Oaks” in  "Gone With The Wind".

But what can be seen from the far end of this magnificent oak alley, leading to the levee of the Mississippi flowing behind it?  A boat, making its way towards Baton Rouge...

The group, on the same levee, but a bit further north, next to Nottaway Plantation, before our last dinner in Louisiana…

There were many other dream-like places : City Park, Jungle Gardens, Atchafalaya Basin which are worth keeping in mind, but how could I do without talking about the people, these friendly and picturesque people, who showed us how to “laisser les bons temps rouler”, “ne pas lâcher la patate” and gave our week in Louisiana this colourful and unforgettable print of Cajun culture:

This student in microbiology at LSU (Louisiana State University) was going to play in the evening concert at LSU Rural Life Museum. He asked us where we were from and he couldn’t believe the group was from Grenoble…Strange coincidence, he said he was going to spend 3 months next summer at Joseph Fourier !... 
Maybe we’ll meet him somewhere....

And we won't forget the smile of Bobby, our coach driver, who always gave a hand to ladies stepping out of the coach and did it so kindly that some of the ladies were inclined to get on again so as to be able to get off the bus a second time…

All that is :

 Bernadette
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-snapshot =   
1) an informal photograph that is taken quickly
2) Here, it is a quick view or a small amount of information that tells you a little about what someone or something is like. 
-weird = strange