How very pretty, Billie. This brought me back many, many, moons ago when my father took me to New Orleans on a train to visit my eye doctor. From the train station we took a city bus to Canal Street where the doctor's office was located. I don't expect, in my lifetime, to ever see New Orleans as pretty and 'pomp' as it was then.
It is so sad that New Orleans has faced such devastation, and even more sad is the turmoil and controversy that's going on now with all the blame-games. I always enjoyed visiting there and couldn't bear to see it now.