I'm moving to New Orleans at the end of December. This visit is going into the calendar for January. Thanks Jen.

We were in NOLA and participated a little bit in the making of "Home Atlas". Evocative, stripped-down and steeped in its own history, 5427 Burgundy is a lovely little house, with a large yard and an enormous live-oak in back. We learned a lot about shotguns, the neighborhoods, the people. Lots of trim and beautiful little hearths in that house, wide pine floors, termites. The people who lived in these houses built them, lots of black artisans a hundred years ago. Lots of black homeowners in NOLA before Katrina. The most wonderful thing about New Orleans is its imperfection and sense of the now, people spilling out everywhere last week in the unusually warm November sunshine. Sun, moisture, conversation, greetings on the street, bananas and palmettos, bumpy sidewalks, narrow streets, the 'neutral ground' running down the boulevards, dense urban and lush. A city rife with corruption and teeming with life, quite the contrast to Seattle, and very tempting!

Thank you for the coverage of this installation in a special historic New Orleans neighborhood bounded by the Mississippi River, the Industrial Canal (both with lovely levees), the historic Jackson Barracks and St. Claude Avenue. This shotgun house is owned by the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans and is scheduled for a full restoration. The PRC has invested several million dollars in this neighborhood since Katrina and has fabulous houses for sale, renovated on about to be renovated. The neighborhood has much to see, including the unique twin Steamboat Houses, so if in New Orleans do venture just a short distance downriver from the Vieux Carre for a nice visit. Patricia Gay