We recently drove to New Orleans (excuse me, N'Awlins) for the American Library Association Convention and for a family vacation. We had various reasons for attending the humongous ALA Convention. Bob was working at the Library of Congress booth. I was speaking with publishers and editors, meeting authors I'd long admired, seeing other authors who ( Read more... )

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Here's a fun meme. It's called the Photo Hunt. The site lists a different them each week  a different theme, and each blogger posts a photo that relates to that theme. (If you're reading this on FB and the photo doesn't transfer over, come to the Petrini Page on LiveJournal to see it here.) Technically, I'm late with this one. The new week starts ( Read more... )

I can't resist posting a few final shots of New Orleans. These are from my last evening in town. The next morning, I reluctantly loaded up the rental car and drove away from my new favorite city.


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Finally I'm posting more photos of my trip to New Orleans. These start immediately after my visit to the cemetery that morning. From there I headed away from the Quarter into the non-tourist part of the city. Here, the damage from Hurricane Katrina was still apparent. But I also happened upon a beautiful little Catholic church with mosaics I couldn ( Read more... )

I spent part of the morning of May 5 in a cemetery. New Orleans cemeteries are distinctive. The graves are built above ground, because the land is so low. Some have wrought-iron or cast-iron fences around them. There are individual graves, and there are also family mausoleums, as well as large mausoleums erected by various organizations or ( Read more... )

And here are some more photos for May 4. (I have dozens of others, but enough is enough.) This was my day to wander around the French Quarter and get oriented. I was so busy I didn't have time for dinner, and had to quickly grab an order of beignets at an outdoor cafe with live Dixieland jazz. Rough life.


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Today I'm doing something a little different. It's just too hard to narrow down the choice of photos; New Orleans is too picturesque. So I'm posting today's (actually, May 4's) photos in two batches. This first batch, 4a, will be shots of coming into the city, and of the hotel in the French Quarter where I stayed ( Read more... )

Oh, wow. New Orleans was fabulous in every way. I'm told that people visiting New Orleans for the first time either love it or hate it. I'm definitely in the first group. I have tons of great pictures, some of which I hope to post soon. And various NOLA adventures to recount. Unfortunately, right now I have a six-year-old in the next room who wants ( Read more... )

First, to review the game:
The idea is to take 6-8 photos a day for a week and post them on the site in consecutive order. Each one must be accompanied by the exact time it was taken and a title, with no further explanation.

Today was mostly a stay-at-home kind of day. On my few excursions out, I didn't actually take any photos. So, for my day in ( Read more... )