As you know, last Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday – or Mardi Gras. And no city does Mardi Gras better than New Orleans. But …
NEW ORLEANS’ YARDI GRAS HOUSES
This year has been unlike any other. A tremendous amount of setback, disappointment, and loss consumed the vast majority of our days. In spite of it all, New Orleanians did what New Orleanians always do – found a reason to celebrate.
When the news broke that Mardi Gras parades were canceled, locals got to work. Contemplating and creating their own COVID-safe celebration now dubbed – Yardi Gras. Thanks to the efforts of the Krewe of House Floats, home and business owners linked up with local float makers and artists to recreate the same visually stunning and cleverly themed floats Mardi Gras is known for right on their front porches.
https://www.neworleans.com/blog/post/yardi-gras-houses-new-orleans/
There were literally hundreds of “Yardi Gras” decorated houses to sort through, so I might well have missed one you happened to see and particularly enjoyed. If so, feel free to share it in the Comments.
I’ll begin with ones that had an identifiable Theme to it.
This is a dinosaur from Jurassic Park at the famous “Wedding Cake” house.
In a salute (I guess) to infamous attorney Sidney Powell, here is Release the Kraken house.
What’s not to like about this frog from Down on the Bayou house?
Covers of Dr. Seuss Books cover this house.
Here’s the Jester/Joker in his Harlequin-like outfit.
You can almost smell the Beignets from this Café du Monde house.
This house celebrates the fine art of Creole Cuisine.
Blacklights were creatively used for the Shroom house.
Everybody loves a Circus.
Look at the gold arms reaching out at the bottom – you can almost hear them yelling “Toss Me Some Beads!”
In honor of Prince, the Purple Rain house.
Celebrating New Orleans’ wonderful history of jazz, the Silhouette house.
And some New Orleanian must have read TC’s Blog and decided to honor JD with the Nine Muses.
In the Oaks section of NOLa they had traditional-style floats that were stationary, and people could drive by to view them.
These “Yardi Gras” houses had no theme that I could discern, but I liked them.
Hopefully New Orleans will be back in full-swing for Mardi Gras next year!
