“Louisiana from twenty-thousand feet used to look like a fine and verdant boot with long marsh appendages reaching out into the Gulf of Mexico and interspersed with hundreds of inlets and clandestine waterways like Jean Lafitte would hole up and hide their booty.” LouisianaGulf Of MexicoMarshJean Lafitte Book:Tiny Righteous Acts Source: Tiny Righteous Acts
“Steam fingers reached up through Decatur's freshly scoured sidewalks as they did each morning, the ancestors of the Choctaw and Saint-Dominguens and Spanish and French, no doubt reminding them they would not reliquish this colony again to the Americans.” AdventureNew OrleansSpanishFrench QuarterNew Orleans French QuarterBeignetsChoctaw Book:Tiny Righteous Acts Source: Tiny Righteous Acts
“The whiffs of coffee and chicory and fried dough danced awkwardly with the occasional and unmistakable wafts of urine left by naive tourists or wild fraternity brothers or desperate homeless people or all of the above. Beset among throngs of tourists identified by lanyards and name tags, and dramatic straw hats, the board awaited the delivery of mountains of beignets dusted like the Alps with sweet snow.” CoffeeNew Orleans French QuarterBeignets Author:Parker Bauman