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New Orleans: Visual Meditation (Part Two)

(photos of doors on St. Charles Ave and the Loyola Campus in New Orleans)

-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts

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7 Responses

  1. love the doors!!! (not to brag), but i told tess how new orleans made so much more sense to me now that i have seen paris. the influence is so strong there. i, too, was drawn to photograph doors…tess was drawn more so to balconies which i hope she will share soon!

  2. Christine. these are lovely. I a going to meditate on them awhile because I keep coming back to them. They seem to be tapping Spirit.

    Thank you, once again, for such a special start to my day.