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 ...

“It has beads on it all the time, we call it our Mardi Gras tree,” said UL junior Alliyah Williams, who walks by a “bead tree” almost every day near campus on Johnston Street. “It’s ...

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 ...

WDSU's Cassie Schirm is dressed up as a bead tree It's estimated that an average of 25 million pounds of plastic beads are tossed in Mardi Gras each year in the city. Pair that with more than 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Mardi Gras, you can watch sumptuous floats roll by, catch bags full of plastic beads, stuffed animals ... out spots along the various routes. The streetcar stops rolling down St. Charles ...

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 ...