Bywater Dream

Kerry Moody’s Creole cottage in New Orleans’ Bywater district winks at passersby from a thicket of elephant-ear-shaped taro plants. Set back from the street, the house emerges from the earth like the ginger blossoms showing off their exotic coloring nearby, all yellows and greens and splashes of red. Cross through the iron gates, step along the bricked path, and you enter a sanctuary created by the man who for more than three decades