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These birds captured my attention, so I stopped on a bike ride as I was traveling North toward Lake Ponchartrain on the west ("upriver") side of City Park. White Ibis gathering, January 2020 Carol and I are for the most part keeping warm but sometimes doing so requires special equipment: I could use better blood flow to my fingers, but this helps.  31 days to Mardi Gras Thanks as usual for your interest.

Discussed: Mardi Gras season, Puerto Rico, Amanda Palmer Here in New Orleans "Carnival Season" starts on January 6, 12th Night.  This day is also celebrated traditionally as the Feast of Epiphany, the day that the three wise men visited the Christ child.  Unlike the revelers depicted in the link above, Carol and I and a large but chill crowd celebrated alternatively,  at a Bywater neighborhood tradition, the Bywater Bakery "King Day" King Cake Kick-Off.  The weather was perfect, the music was sweet, and the cake was excellent (I can testify to the deliciousness of the savory crawfish cake).  Sweet versions of king cake traditionally have a tricolor topping of sugar granules, colored yellow green and purple.  My savory cake had colored parmesan cheese!  It begins!  Magnetic Ear performing in the Bywater on January 6, 2020.  From left to right, Russell Ramirez, Steve Glenn (Tuba), Jon Ramm-Gramenz, Martin Krusche, Dan Oestreicher, Paul T...