Random Cell Phone Pics From My New Orleans Trip

If the title didn't tip my hand, allow me to say that there isn't much of a point to this post. Call it scenic beauty and desolation for scenic beauty and desolation's sake. I won't wax philosophical about the status of New Orleans and the surrounding towns to which I traveled because I was there for a little under a week and am clearly not qualified to opine at length about the state of that particular union. I can only say that both optimism and saddness are pervasive there, and New Orleans remains, for my money, one of the greatest cities in the world.