Metairie Cemetery

The cemetery was everything and more - I just wandered and marveled.  Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary in the city.  P.G.T. Beauregard and John Bell Hood,  Confederate Officers are buried there as well as Governor Claiborne, Hahn, Heard, Leche, Parker, McEnery, and Pinchback.   Norman Treigle, Louis Prima and Al Hirt headline there now.  The inventor of the Higgins Boat and the inventor of the binocular microscope call Metairie Cemetery home.   Dorothy Dix, Marguerite Clark, Grace King, The Lottery King, Mel Ott and a host of other fine folks are buried there as well.  I can visualize all them sharing a meal and being served by Al Copeland or Ruth Fertel.  What an amazing place.  I did not set out to find their burial sites.  I just wandered and took pictures of what interested me.

TWELVE
By the time you are twelve your affections are fixed.
Then come the decades that roll your heart like a cheese
In the sea. Yes, it is surreal.
Then you are twelve again, and old.
And you find the waxed red ball of your heart on the shore.
And you are not surprised by anything now except
That you should love at the end what you loved
At the beginning.
Stan Rice, Author and Poet

About The House and The GPS

We finished all of the must repairs and promptly moved my son in. We then hit the road. It is nice to know that there is a place to hang my hat when I feel the need. Meanwhile my son gets to babysit the house. He works and attends school full time so having a rent free place is nice. The maintenance can be a headache and I am so glad it is his headache for the time being.

The GPS did pretty good today, it took us everywhere we wanted to go and I let my guard down. We made it to New Orleans at rush hour and the GPS told us to go left when we should have gone right and we were lost. I knew I should have turned right. Robin I hope you are right. If it doesn't straighten out we will be performing an exorcism on it using rocks.