AND GUYS NEVER, NEVER A DULL DAY HERE ON BOURBO New Orleans' bead trees are in full bloom, in all their tacky glory. They're a native species to southeast Louisiana during Mardi Gras, with blooms ...

Louisiana may not have much when it comes to fall foliage, but this time of year many trees along the parade routes start to shine. “It has beads on it all the time, we call it our Mardi Gras ...

The city's annual series of parades began more than a week ago and will close out on Tuesday — Mardi Gras — a final ... uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground ...

After returning home from attending the first Mardi Gras parade of the season, they decided to throw all of the gold, green and purple beads on the tree. Despite the mysterious origins of the idea ...

shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck. This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. MOBILE, Ala. — The trees tell the tale. In the weeks before Lent ...

But in recent years there’s also been increasing discontent with the enormous amount of plastic thrown during Mardi Gras ... 200,000 strands of beads from New Orleans' trees, storm drains ...

Mobile city workers shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck ... before a single parade rolls down Government Boulevard, the trees and streets will already tell the tale.

NEW ORLEANS — You probably have a big bag of Mardi Gras beads in your home right now. Or maybe you've already recycled them to one of the non-profits. But now one krewe hopes to lighten your ...

Mardi Gras beads dangling from tree limbs are a lovely sight, but the broken ones strewed about the asphalt and grass are not as picturesque. To combat the leftover Mardi Gras litter, LSU's ...

Sacramento broke out the beads for a Mardi Gras Festival on Saturday night, with creative floats from the City of Trees parade illuminating Capitol Mall. The parade, in its fourth year ...

He knows that come next January, before a single parade rolls down Government Boulevard, the trees and streets ... pounds of plastic beads manufactured in China for Mardi Gras, many of which ...