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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 25, 2013 6:17:43 GMT
Deliberately bad composition here, as I tried to cram in as much local color as I could in one photo.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2013 18:06:13 GMT
I think it looks great, although there are all sorts of things to wonder about.
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Post by htmb on Oct 25, 2013 22:02:07 GMT
And lots of fabulous colors, too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2013 15:10:42 GMT
Just a little ride on the metro...
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 26, 2013 16:59:43 GMT
That was absolutely delightful! I loved being in the sleek modern train & seeing the fancy old-fashioned ironwork as the cars pulled into the station. Ditto the juxtaposition of the timeless accordion music with high-tech transportation. What's interesting is that the murmur of voices and the way people look around when boarding public transportation seems universal.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 26, 2013 21:07:58 GMT
OK, when it started I obviously heard the accordion and wondered if you'd mixed it in, but it didn't sound like you had--and you hadn't! I quite enjoy riding a metro, haven't in a few years and never have commuted on one daily like a lot of riders do. I suppose they are probably more ambivalent or just preoccupied compared to one like me riding more for the experience. I was wondering if a river crossing was going to be included, and was happy to see one.
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Post by htmb on Oct 26, 2013 21:20:47 GMT
Did others notice you filming? I assume you were doing it in a clandestine manner. Correct?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2013 16:45:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 17:22:09 GMT
Did others notice you filming? I assume you were doing it in a clandestine manner. Correct? If you watch the video again you will notice quite a few people glancing at me.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2013 17:58:30 GMT
I think it looks great, although there are all sorts of things to wonder about. Casilda: aguas (flavored water-based beverages) business started in 1890, selling their wares in the zócalo. It's been licensed under its present name since 1926. www.aguascasilda.com.mx/band: itinerant musicians are a common sight in Mexican markets. braids: The fabric woven through the woman's hair -- extenders -- are a common local touch. The rebozo (tied around her head), the pinafore, and the dress that looks like a little girl's party dress are all very typical. I don't know which town or region her outfit is from, but others would. baskets: meant to be ornamented with flowers and carried on the head by women while dancing. They're part of a flower stall in this picture. Bring your Visa card! mole: now a chic emblem of southern Mexico cooking, it's sold in paste form in that stand. You can see part of the word "amargo" (bitter) further to the right, indicating chocolate is also sold there. The various bottles are probably flavored mezcales.
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Post by htmb on Oct 28, 2013 20:17:43 GMT
Did others notice you filming? I assume you were doing it in a clandestine manner. Correct? If you watch the video again you will notice quite a few people glancing at me. Yes, I thought that's what I was seeing the first time I watched. Wasn't sure they were looking at you, or if it just looked like it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2013 18:21:39 GMT
I think it looks great, although there are all sorts of things to wonder about. Casilda: aguas (flavored water-based beverages) business started in 1890, selling their wares in the zócalo. It's been licensed under its present name since 1926. www.aguascasilda.com.mx/band: itinerant musicians are a common sight in Mexican markets. braids: The fabric woven through the woman's hair -- extenders -- are a common local touch. The rebozo (tied around her head), the pinafore, and the dress that looks like a little girl's party dress are all very typical. I don't know which town or region her outfit is from, but others would. baskets: meant to be ornamented with flowers and carried on the head by women while dancing. They're part of a flower stall in this picture. Bring your Visa card! mole: now a chic emblem of southern Mexico cooking, it's sold in paste form in that stand. You can see part of the word "amargo" (bitter) further to the right, indicating chocolate is also sold there. The various bottles are probably flavored mezcales. I love this time of year and was in Mexico many years back to take in much of this with sheer amazement, fascination and reverence. I hope to go back again someday soon and take my husband with me. I have a dear friend who is currently in Merida, in the Yucatan. I know that this particular holiday tradition runs deep throughout Mexico, and, would be curious to hear of the various comparisons from city to city, state to state. I imagine there are many different local variations just as there are different traditions in the celebration of Carnival or Mardi Gras throughout many parts of the world.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 29, 2013 23:00:18 GMT
Hello, Betty, and welcome! Anyport's other faithful poster from Mexico, Don Cuevas, has a nifty thread in On the Menu about the traditional bread for "muertos" (short-hand for the day of the dead time of year).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 14:32:54 GMT
Hello, Betty, and welcome! Anyport's other faithful poster from Mexico, Don Cuevas, has a nifty thread in On the Menu about the traditional bread for "muertos" (short-hand for the day of the dead time of year). Oh cool!! I just went and looked at it. Thank you for steering me to that. Ever since seeing the altars etc. after my visit to Mexico I faithfully construct an altar in my house. Somehow it comforts me.
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Post by htmb on Nov 9, 2013 4:14:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2013 7:54:23 GMT
How lovely! Did the horses or the painter know you were there?
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Post by htmb on Nov 9, 2013 12:07:18 GMT
I would imagine so. I was on Paynes Prairie and there were other people coming and going, too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2013 13:07:11 GMT
That is a fabulous shot HTMB. It has a very ethereal quality about it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2013 12:14:52 GMT
They were filming a movie downstairs this morning. A bit later when I went to the supermarket I saw that they were also "robbing" the bank on the corner, but I didn't have my camera with me and the scene had wrapped by the time I finished my shopping.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2013 15:39:02 GMT
Sometimes enthusiasm is more important than talent.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 18:22:32 GMT
This evening I went to the inauguration of the municipal Institut des Cultures d'Islam. This is something that I would never really have gone out of the way to do since I am not personally concerned, but it just so happens that it is located directly between my apartment and my mother's nursing home and I had an invitation.
However, I was really delighted to see how proud the local residents were to have a beautiful new building constructed in their honour, including a new mosque. Due to the laws covering separation of church and state in France, obviously it was out of the question that the municipality finance a mosque, so what they did was to sell one floor of the building to the same Islamic association that operates the Grande Mosquée de Paris. The association will of course pay its share of the building charges every year as well.
There was the usual spread of fancy nibbles and plenty of drinks, but no alcohol. To compensate for the lack of a luxury drink like champagne and to not just serve Perrier and orange juice, they had the excellent idea to serve strawberry smoothies, which a lot of the people were clearly tasting for the first time.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 7, 2014 3:03:37 GMT
Parents! Grandparents! Child carers! Now that the holidays are over and children everywhere are jaded with new toys and excitement, what ever can you find to keep them happy and entertained? Set a big bag on fire & let 'em play with that! Wish I could have gotten better pictures & a close look at the bag. At one point an adult finally helped the kids get the bag aloft again, where it eventually floated high above the tower of Santo Domingo and into the clouds. The kids yelled, "Adios, adios para siempre!" The second photo in this link is where the kids were running around in almost complete darkness. I've grown this plant, & let me tell you it is viciously barbed up & down the length of each leaf: forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bromeliad/msg1023553924535.html
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2014 19:41:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2014 20:18:01 GMT
The colourful brooms are excellent.
You would probably be surprised to know that quite a few French supermarkets still display eggs like that and allow customers to fill their own egg cartons to buy them. I find it rather silly myself, because you can't really tell the quality of eggs just by looking at them like fruit or vegetables.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 20, 2014 7:10:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 7:35:00 GMT
That is an excellent set of photos. One thing that I will never understand about quinceañeras is why they almost always have makeup and a hairdo to make them look 35 instead of 15.
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Post by bjd on Jan 20, 2014 7:44:13 GMT
I'm glad the quinceaneras thing hasn't spread. That is just so over the top for 15. Maybe the warm climate makes them mature earlier?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 20, 2014 19:18:31 GMT
That is an excellent set of photos. One thing that I will never understand about quinceañeras is why they almost always have makeup and a hairdo to make them look 35 instead of 15. Thanks! I think that's been true forever. When I was in high school, proms & the like called for having ones hair teased and tortured into a curly-cue architectural construction. And of course we smeared make-up onto our rosy, unwrinkled skins as though we were aging burlesque queens. Admittedly, some of the quinceañeras do look sweet & fresh in their frothy dresses. This girl is particularly ott, although for my photographic purposes -- wanting to pull in all those bits of blue in the buildings & in her outfit -- she was perfect, what with those neon eyelids & all. (Haven't figured out multiple quotes in the new system yet)
Posted by bjd: I'm glad the quinceaneras thing hasn't spread. That is just so over the top for 15. Maybe the warm climate makes them mature earlier?
I don't think they mature physically faster here than anywhere else. But the 15th birthday tradition is very strong, even on the Texas border when I lived there. I've know mothers who were in despair because their daughters didn't want the quinceañera hoo-ha.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 19:57:44 GMT
I am wondering if the "Sweet 16" business is still done in the United States. I have been out of the country far too long to have any idea about it. Of course, that stuff was always more innocent than the quinceañera stuff seems to be (at least visually). It always seemed to me to just be a subterfuge to force fathers into allowing their daughters to go on dates after that event.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 20, 2014 23:01:37 GMT
I don't think sweet sixteen in the US ever meant anything more than a realistically sized party with a theme cake.
Admittedly, I'm so old that any formal occasions when I was a teen meant that Father let us go pick out a new pelt from the back of the cave. But it seems to me that by the 80s teenage girls had gotten much more va-va-voom than in my high-school years. We certainly never even entertained the notion of slinky anything or plunging necklines.
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