Mardi Gras draws our attention up: to the parades, the floats, the balconies, to the beads, plushes, cups and doubloons falling from the sky. But what lies below our gaze?

I’ll soon recap Mardi Gras with more posts on My Mardi Gras Experience and here, but first, I’ll ask you to look at another side of Mardi Gras…

Below our feet, Bacchus Ball, New Orleans, LA

Below our ladders, St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA

Below our gaze, Canal St., New Orleans, LA

Also: aired on NPR on APM Marketplace, my love for seeing a “group of a 100 guys dressed in full Elvis regalia on scooters” while talking about My Mardi Gras Experience…