Fat Tuesday - costumes!!!
Fat Tuesday is one of my top 2 favorite days to take photos. (Super Sunday with the Black Masking Indians is the other one). While the rest of the city attends the last day of parades, we go down to the French Quarter and join the flow of locals wandering the streets in elaborate costumes.
For this bonus post, I could try to capture the experience in words – but this is a day I traditionally let speak for itself. So enjoy the MANY photos and few words!
Everywhere else it’s just Tuesday, but in New Orleans it’s an explosion of culture and creativity.
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Some of you already know that my husband can spend weeks conceiving and preparing costume ideas. He's been the Superdome, the St. Louis Cathedral, and this year he was the beloved and recently closed Palace Café.
We ran into friends and family as well as forever-Saint, Steve Gleason, artist Amzie Adams (in his everyday hand-painted clothing), and violinist Tanya Huang on skates!
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And as always, there were costumes about our construction issues.
Whether locals attended the Rex, Zulu, and truck parades or danced through the Quarter in imaginative costumes – many in the city end their day waiting for the odd, dancing, papier-mâché "big heads" at the Mistick Krewe of Comus Ball televised on WYES public broadcasting.
And I rest in the glow of our annual Mardi Gras tree – decorated almost entirely in throws I've caught over the years.
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