St. Charles Ave. trolleys run along the central grassy area between downtown and the Garden District. Although these photos were taken more than three months after Mardi Gras, beads are still hanging from the catenary wires.


Downtown on St. Charles Ave., the United Fruit Company building combines 90-year old intricate stonework with a modernistic sheer granite facade. It's quite disconcerting.


Homes of the Garden District on the main street (yes, St. Charles). The lushest parts of the district practically obscure the classical architecture, and the profusion of beads add to the camouflage.


New Orleans' Loyola (there are many separate ones with the same name) is both in the Garden District and on St. Charles Ave.


On a side street in the District. Professor Hydrant is raised high to avoid flooding, because even (or especially) during hurricanes, there may be fires to be extinguished. This certainly has nothing to do with snow.


Stop throwing all those beads around! What, do you think they grow on trees?

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