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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2011 2:39:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 12:14:40 GMT
Bixa, is that an artisan who makes "decorative" clay pots? I ask this because, as ugly as the objects may be, the entire world has adopted plastic basins for ordinary use. I'd be quite surprised if that were not true in Mexico as well.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2011 15:09:08 GMT
Kerouac, those are for use in the kitchen. I've answered your question more completely here at #21.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2011 6:18:24 GMT
Until yesterday, I hadn't seen a walking organ grinder in the older residential streets of Paris (meaning far from any tourist area) for years.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 24, 2011 19:46:28 GMT
Where's the monkey? Don't organ grinders have to have monkeys?
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Post by Kimby on Mar 24, 2011 19:48:13 GMT
These guys are using infrared imagery and a "smoke stick" to find weaknesses in our lake cottage's defenses against cold and drafts. We passed with flying colors! (Now we need an air exchanger (heat-recovery ventilation system) to keep from suffocating or growing algae indoors!)
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Post by Kimby on Mar 24, 2011 19:54:16 GMT
In Montana, snow removal equipment is a fact of life. A snow shovel won't cut it. Snowblowers are good if your driveway isn't too long (ours is 600 feet+). A plow blade on the front of your truck is good, if you have someplace to push the snow. And a truck. Our builder has been using a front end loader ("skidsteer") to lift bucketloads of snow up over the snowbanks. But only on weekdays. It can get pretty dicey when we try to get in on the weekends. This photo is our neighbor, who came over to meet us a few weeks back, then without a word went home and got his tractor with snowblower attachment and came over and blew out our driveway, which was in the process of drifting shut. (Did I mention that he is the sitting governor of Montana? Talk about a dedicated public servant!)
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Post by tod2 on Apr 1, 2011 4:49:35 GMT
Mich, you have a very nice neighbor so look after him with some good 'ol home baking!
Kerouac, I can remember seeing an old organ grinder in rue Mouffetard many years ago but he was a bit bedraggled. Not a smartly turned out fellow like in your photo! For the last 4 trips I have not encountered any at all, not even up at Sacre Coeur where I once saw an oragan grinder with an instrument on wheels. This was one of those that have a paper music sheet with the holes in it. Thanks for the photo - I hope I bump into him oneday!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2011 5:33:22 GMT
You can sometimes see a big organ with the perforated music sheets in front of the Centre Pompidou.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2011 16:39:12 GMT
You still see organ grinders here, but never with monkeys. Usually the organs are quite old, and all of them seem to have been made in Berlin. I always look for that, but the last one I saw (last week, in Puebla) had that part painted over. On it was handprinted in Spanish, "I, too, once was young." It would have been more poignant had the person cranking it not been barely more than a child.
Kimby, that snow removal picture is a really good photo!
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Post by bjd on Apr 1, 2011 17:10:50 GMT
I just went back through this thread -- some great pictures. Bixa's Los Inutiles from the previous page reminded me of these guys:
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Post by Kimby on Apr 9, 2011 21:31:36 GMT
Since I don't think we have a Random Pictures thread - do we? - I'm posting this one here: Taken on my return flight to Montana from visiting my parents in Wisconsin. Note the beany baby giraffe perched on the controls, wearing a set of flight wings. I was given the responsibility of participating in a 4th grader from Pennsylvania's geography project. The giraffe (named "Cheese") gets mailed from person to person, with a post card being sent home to PA from each stop, and a photo taken in each location and a journal entry full of geographic tidbits written at each location. It arrived at my parents house, so got a Wisconsin entry and photo, and now is here in Montana with me where it will get a Montana entry and photo. The photo above was from the "friendly skies over WI, MN, ND, and MT" entry. The weather was "minus 30° at 36,000 feet" and the climate is "jet-stream influenced". The land is generally "far below and tiny". Cheese enjoyed the trip and is looking forward to a visit to the hand-carved carousel in Missoula before being sent off to a kindergarten teacher in Nashville for her next stop. It's been fun looking at things from a 4th grader's point of view. The pilot seems to be enjoying the project too, and didn't mind being interrupted during his pre-flight check.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2011 22:05:03 GMT
Gad, Bjd, those two might be the same people as my inutiles!
Kimby, you can put your pic where you wish, but I see it as perfect for the "On the Road" thread, the skyways being roads too, right? It's a lovely picture, with all the controls and the pilot's nice, good-natured face.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2011 17:22:52 GMT
This morning at 7:45, everybody who saw this guy at work paused to admire his lettering. Even though there were horizontal guides on the window, the lettering was absolutely freehand.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 18, 2011 18:55:36 GMT
Beautiful work, plus great pics -- and one's a snoitcelfer, too.
(Hey -- snitch me one of those darling turquoise cups the next time you pass that place!)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2011 23:55:20 GMT
Great shots yes!! Me wants one of those little turquoise demitasse cups tooo!!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 23, 2011 13:49:27 GMT
Good grief...encouraging Kerouac to be naughty....tsk tsk....great pic tho, did he mind you getting up close whilst he was trying to concentrate? ;D I saw this chap on Thursday morning on my way to work..he drew up in a huge flat bed lorry, which had 3 of these cherry-picker machines on the back...he got onto the smallest one and monoevered it off the lorry via a ramp...then drove off down the road, controling it from the bucket thing that he was standing in....very clever...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2011 18:21:12 GMT
Good grief...encouraging Kerouac to be naughty....tsk tsk....great pic tho, did he mind you getting up close whilst he was trying to concentrate? ;D I never get close. I let the zoom do all the work. The first of the two pictures was taken from across the intersection.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 26, 2011 11:09:20 GMT
I love modern cameras!.... ;D
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Post by Kimby on Apr 28, 2011 6:54:48 GMT
Mr. Kimby working to keep the melting snow from flooding the new house. The finish grading wasn't done before the snow came, and we also didn't get eaves troughs installed on the house before winter. So now we have to worry about spring snowmelt and runoff seeping into the foundation. So far only a few drops. (But there shouldn't be any!)
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Post by Kimby on Apr 28, 2011 8:51:04 GMT
I'm not sure what this guy is doing with his transit, but am glad he's taking such pains to get it right!
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2011 11:11:42 GMT
I didn't even know that police were allowed to be skinheads in France.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 11, 2011 7:03:58 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jul 11, 2011 11:36:18 GMT
Bixa, I think your last pic of the lady sleeping on her bike is a good candidate for "Land of Nod" as well!
The faces of the women reflect a life of hardship and a never ending struggle to make ends meet. (At their age you would think there would be time to put the feet up and let the rest of the family take care of you). The similarity to our African women here is striking.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 11, 2011 16:36:59 GMT
Oh, Tod ~~ thanks so much! I was positive there was a thread about people sleeping, but had forgotten the title. After looking around for it, I figured I was mistaken & posted the picture in People at Work. I'm glad to move it, as posting it in this thread makes it seem as though I'm being sarcastic about the sleeping woman, whereas I know how hard and long those vendors work. Tod, hope this doesn't sound like nagging, but it would be so fabulous to log on to the forum one day & see that Tod2 had created a thread in the Africa board about the markets there. Seeing those in person one day is on my dream list.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 18:41:06 GMT
I was fascinated at how naturally these painters reproduced totally old fashioned signage.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2011 20:32:47 GMT
These city gardeners look like they enjoy their work.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2011 5:25:36 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jul 18, 2011 15:50:44 GMT
A deejay? Or a musician?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2011 17:17:27 GMT
A DJ! On the 13th of July (since the 14th was a night before work).
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