Quilty Mama 🪡🧵

An engraving depicting Saint Augustine Church, from a 19th-century magazine called Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. The church is visible in the center background. In the foreground, there are pedestrians, a covered wagon, and a man on horseback in the street and on the sidewalks in front of the buildings that line the street, including a dry goods store.

2021 Google Street View showing the same scene, mostly unchanged. There are cars parked along one side of Henriette Delille Street as well as power lines and poles, but the buildings on either side of the street in the foreground appear mostly unchanged since the 1859 view.

St. Augustine Church, the spiritual heart of the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, as seen in 1859 and today. Anyone remember which hurricane knocked over the wrought-iron cross on the steeple? @granzombi.bsky.social, do you know?
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Thought I was on my nolasky feed (it was “discover”) and the first five words of this post had me anticipating some parade etiquette wisdom

While wondering how Scrim fit in 🧐

I have Mardi Gras brain and need glasses

Photo of a grail decorated in purple, green, and gold with tinsel garland, a mask, a flower, king cake babies, and a Mardi Gras flag. Behind it is a gold tray with a King Arther logo.

Thank you @mulish.bsky.social for this beautiful grail. Happy Mardi Gras 💜💚💛

Okay so the AP says the couple had invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and he suggested they be in his show. Love that

So the wedding was real and the kid he gave the grammy to was not Liam Ramos, right?

A large group of people in Mardi Gras colors, purple green and gold, some with their hands reaching up to three huge floats decorated in medieval design with Mardi Gras colors. The sun is casting a golden hue on everything. Huge oak trees hang over the floats.

Golden Hour Mardi Gras Edition. 💜💚💛

Two owls atop a Mardi Gras float!

Superb Owls!

You work fast! I love it

What a beautiful day. Have a great ride!

Have fun! 💜💚💛
I missed everything last year, too. It has been so nice to be back.

I’m also a fan of Lucha Krewe. I think they’re so fun.

Thoughts that New Orleans will lead you to:
What shade of pink should I paint the rolling bar cart for the upcoming semi-gothic flamingo-themed funeral?

Hyper local nolasky is my favorite bluesky 😄

Sidewalk side. Bands only. Leave the knife in the box.

Four smiling women posing side-by-side in front of a live oak, wearing the matching costumes of a parade dance troupe - gray corsets and short skirts of layered fabric strips in gray and silver. They are wearing wigs and headpieces. (White flower headpiece, dark hair is my daughter.)

Crescent City Fae is marching with Freret today. My daughter tells me they will be throwing signature hand-decorated faerie lanterns, pan flutes, and wands. Find them between floats 14 and 15!

The Pussyfooters dance troupe in front of Care Forgot brewery.

#HailCleo

(My alt text is not showing up on videos recently. No idea why.)

The Leijorettes will march with the Krewe of Alla on Wednesday, February 11 @ 7pm. We will be in front of float 18. #mardigras #nolasky

Sidewalk Steppers Second Line Visit the post for more.

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Feb 4 is Transit Equity Day. Buses, streetcars and ferries are free today. #nolasky

Woke up with an anxiety attack already in progress. I’m getting better at managing these during the day but come on

This is literally my approach to “these times”

How lucky are we that, for several days in the next two weeks, we get to stand among soon-to-be-friends, and float-by-float, be focused solely on catching shit glued to other shit.

Same. It has been a couple years and I don’t miss it.

You too!

I probably should not joke. Call it stress management lol

Well now you’re just showing off (she says from the boil water advisory zone in New Orleans). 😆

Here we go!!💜💚💛

Krewe du Vieux was so much fun! I have not been that cold in a long time but it was worth it. Shout out to all of the #nolasky KdV peeps for putting on a great show in freezing temps 💜💛💚

Promo the hell out of your work, Aura. People are weird. (I, for one, would not have known about your writing otherwise.)

KDV tonight, Krewe of the Mystic Inane is #10! Shout "Melissa" real loud and I'll give you something good (disgusting)! 🩸🩸🩸

I know it's cold but the floats this year are fantastic, YOU need some catharsis, and the parade is short so like 45 minutes max and you can just go hide in a warm bar