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Post by htmb on Feb 14, 2013 21:01:09 GMT
Research is being done as we speak, but I am sure I don't have to inform you esteemed and highly intelligent AnyPort executive board members of the migratory patterns of human populations.
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Post by htmb on Feb 14, 2013 21:57:42 GMT
Cherokee
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 22:24:02 GMT
You realize that Anyport has to pay royalties to everyone who appears in a photograph, I hope.
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Post by htmb on Feb 14, 2013 22:32:41 GMT
I will let you know where to send the check.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2013 13:49:11 GMT
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Good job HTMB!!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2013 18:51:45 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Feb 25, 2013 19:06:26 GMT
Bixa - wonderful photos! That's a sure sign of 'cottage industry' when the spools of yarn are in the doorway! Absolutely marvellous! I wish I could tell what he is weaving? I recognise the green tape measure hanging from a railing....it's Made In China ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2013 21:51:36 GMT
Sharp eyes, Tod! Thanks so much. I was in the barrio of Xochimilco, which is full of weavers. You can hear the clock-clock-clock of their looms as you walk down the street. I actually passed the window without noticing, then my attention was caught by the vibrating threads in the doorway as they unwound from the spools. I backtracked to the window, held up my camera, & the man nodded okay. Don't you love that some of the figures on the wrought iron are spindles?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 11, 2013 6:40:42 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 11, 2013 6:48:35 GMT
The fourth Friday in Lent is celebrated in Oaxaca as Viernes de la Samaritana -- Friday of the Samaritan woman. Here's the local store in my neighborhood honoring the tradition ~~ Alejandra and her aunt Micaela, whose store it is, serve up the fresh aguas (-ades) to the neighbors ~ Left to right: agua de chilacayote (those squashes seen on the floor in the previous pic), horchata (base of rice water flavored with almonds, cinnamon, & sugar), guava water ~
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 12:56:49 GMT
Just wonderful Bixa!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2013 5:54:29 GMT
Thanks so much, Casimira. I am really going to miss this neighborhood!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2013 6:23:47 GMT
The flowers are particularly nice.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 17, 2013 21:09:26 GMT
I was absolutely enchanted to see this ancient wooden tiki sculpture at water's edge on Kauai. Till I realized.... ...what it really was: The abandoned metal track of a tank left behind after a military exercise decades ago, now being eroded out of the beach sands.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2013 3:01:48 GMT
Kinda cool in its own way, though. Beautiful pictures, Tod, I forgot to tell you that the weavers in that neighborhood do lots of bedspreads, curtains, place mats & runners. Look at the 1st & 2nd pics in #30 to see typical examples: anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=mexico&thread=3485&page=2#97996 I've never been that crazy about it -- don't care for the Jordan almond colors nor the ho-hum almost unvarying designs. However, there's a stand at the weekly organic market selling stuff from Xochimilco that's been taken to a new & wonderful dimension. I lust after a particular bedspread there & hope it's still available on Friday. They also do rebozos in jewel colors & some wonderful elegant-in-their-simplicity blouses. You SO need to come here!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2013 16:41:34 GMT
The Chinese have the reputation of gambling about absoutely anything, but today was the first time I saw the improvised casino in the produce section of the Chinese supermarket. There were a bunch of men standing around with notepad writing down numbers and exchanging coins depending on who made the best guess about the price of an apple placed on the produce scale.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 23, 2013 17:30:02 GMT
Oh, that's great!
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Post by fumobici on Mar 23, 2013 21:03:11 GMT
No produce touching taboo in the Chinese markets there then? In Italy it is greeted like spree killing and I was told not to in France as well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2013 21:19:51 GMT
Not touching French produce is a myth except for the really fragile items like cherries or strawberries.
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Post by htmb on Apr 6, 2013 17:41:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2013 18:57:31 GMT
Cool pic. Onyx carvings?
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Post by htmb on Apr 6, 2013 19:02:53 GMT
I'm not sure, bixa. It looked like onyx. I was at a juried outdoor art show (report to follow) and this photo was taken from a distance. I only talked to a few of the artists because I was afraid, if they saw my camera, I might be asked not to take photos of their work.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2013 21:27:54 GMT
Yeah, that always kind of cracks me up. "I am taking this photograph because I am going to go home and weave/carve/paint/cast/cook/ a reproduction of your art."
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2013 7:37:44 GMT
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Post by bjd on Apr 7, 2013 8:33:08 GMT
I like the souped-up VW Beetle, Bixa!
About not touching produce in France -- it depends on the region. At the market in Besançon (Eastern France), the seller would just about rap you on the knuckles if you touched anything or wanted to pick your own fruit. Then we came to Toulouse, where they just hand you a basket and you put what you want in it. And in supermarkets, of course you choose your own fruit, unless you are buying pre-bagged stuff.
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Post by htmb on Apr 7, 2013 12:34:41 GMT
Bixa, care to explain your photos?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2013 15:54:47 GMT
Htmb, this is a coffee-producing region, so whole bean or ground-to-order coffee is very commonly available. That's why beans spilled on the sidewalk are a form of local color. The other bits of local color are the big papier-mâché figures on top of the VW. They're called monos and are moved and danced by people inside them. See #341 here: anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=coffeeklatch&thread=1544&page=12#137713(& I guess the customized bug would constitute local color, too. BJD caught it, but my jaded eyes did not.)
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Post by htmb on Apr 7, 2013 16:00:04 GMT
Cool! Thanks, bixa, I was pretty sure those were coffee beans, but thought that was snow or ice. Will have to check out the monos link for sure. There still so much I haven't read on AnyPort! I think I've only begun to scratch the surface.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 12:00:35 GMT
After seeing a fancy Japanese restaurant in downtown Gulfport where a hardware store used to be, it was a relief to see that some places from my childhood were still there, offering the same items as before. I would imagine that the "vegetable plate" is proof that the 21st century has arrived, though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2013 16:34:50 GMT
At the nursing home, shriveled up tiny Mr. Nguyen died. He would wheel himself through the corridors looking like a bag of sticks but would also smile and say hello when he encountered anybody.
One of the orderlies told me that she went to his funeral today and only three people were there. She is from Mali and the other two people were employees of the nursing home as well -- one from Guadeloupe and another from Morocco.
It seems quite sad, but I'm sure that a little old man from Vietnam never dreamed that one day he would have an unimaginably international funeral halfway around the world from his home.
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