Own Your Encore

Our visit to New Orleans was to take in some of the ‘cocktail culture’ and local architecture. Starting with the Sazerac House. A SAZERAC is known as the cocktail of New Orleans… it’s a tangled history of coffee houses, medicinal bitters, an Absinthe replacement and Cognac replaced with Rye Whisky after the phylloxera edidemic. It…

Here are some local scenes. BonSecours & Magnolia Springs on Mobile Bay Beaches Around the area We made a visit to Flora Bama… a ‘unique’ restaurant, bar and music hall on the border of Florida and Alabama Goodbye Alabama!

When we were in Miami Beach we saw many of these delivery robots on the sidewalks… we talked to them like everyone else!  The robots waited for the cross walk lights, stopped when a person was  passing on the sidewalk, and were generally very courteous.  People kinda just let them navigate along the sidewalks. They…

There were so many details to see on the garments in the D&G show. I have tried to create some categories to look at the art of each garment. There was an ‘atelier ‘ room in the show dedicated to construction details Hats and Flowers Shoes and Bags Trapunto is an Italian quilting technique, often…