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Post by bjd on Mar 31, 2010 12:01:17 GMT
Yes, Casimira, I bought a hat like the one the lady is wearing. But not from her -- I bought mine at the market in Cuenca. But I haven't worn it yet -- I thought of taking it to Colombia, but not being a very expensive Panama, mine doesn't roll into a perfect tiny roll. Instead it got a bit wrecked in my bag on the way home. In any case, I'm not a hat person. Here is the same lady explaining about making her hats. The coloured straws are her raw material. Around Cuenca, in the villages, you see women walking along weaving the hats without even looking at them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 2:54:07 GMT
That's a shame. I am a hat person,and have to curb my enthusiasm for buying especially when traveling because they are a pain to transport. I once has to leave a gorgeous hat in San Francisco and it was years later until I got it back. I suppose I could have mailed it... Anyway,again,great shots!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 19:04:39 GMT
A job that is done in Paris 364 days a year.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 21:14:20 GMT
I would love to catch our trash guys,they come though at 4:30 a.m. while it's still dark out. I am usually on here by then and miss...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 21:23:37 GMT
They used to do that in Paris, too, until they figured out that if sanitation teams worked all day at various hours, it would be a lot cheaper than trying to do the entire city all at the same time (5 a.m. back then). That street I walk in from the nursing home gets done at 18:00 but my own street is serviced only at 21:30. The rubbish bins are supposed to be taken out no more than one hour before the scheduled time and taken back in within one hour of the scheduled time. Otherwise, a fine is possible.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2010 23:01:28 GMT
The reason New Orleans garbage men are out in the wee hours is because they're allowed to set their own schedules. It's to their advantage to get going in the pre-dawn hours when it's cooler and there is no traffic. Also, the sooner they finish, the more of the day they have for their own uses. To paraphrase Marilyn - "A girl like I never gets to see trucks like that!" Even though the truck is positively futuristic, someone still needs to figure out a way to make them small enough not to block traffic, yet still efficient. ============================================================================= Here's the tortilla kid taking them hot off the delivery belt --
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 15:34:59 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 19:24:55 GMT
There is a lot of this going on, now that the snow-shoveling is done for awhile: (Should warm the cockles of casi's heart!)
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Post by Jazz on Apr 5, 2010 16:54:34 GMT
a ceramics factory in the Turkish countryside, It was in a cave and very dark, I loved the ceiling,
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2010 17:06:40 GMT
Dark and magical! Gad, those columns are a reminder the whole weight of the earth is above ones head. I find that blue and white ware sooo beautiful.
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Post by rikita on Apr 5, 2010 18:48:25 GMT
selling food at a market (near cusco, peru) also selling food at a market - bangkok, thailand making bracelets and selling them to tourists (Pisaq, Peru)
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Post by rikita on Apr 5, 2010 18:50:06 GMT
and some children at work: helping her mother sell souvenirs cleaning shoes
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 18:24:35 GMT
Replacing trees on the Champs Elysées this morning. They cut down an enormous number of trees in Paris over the past couple of months.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 18:26:45 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Apr 7, 2010 20:21:08 GMT
Well it's interesting to see just how big the 'new' trees are and how their roots are bound up before they're planted. Will they be watered regularly through the summer?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2010 21:10:56 GMT
Some wonderful pictures here ~~ the barber who cut my child's hair, and the absolute amazing, alien market in Cusco among others. Rikita, the photo of Pisaq is excellent in every way.
Why were the trees on the boulevard cut down -- disease?
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Post by spindrift on Apr 7, 2010 21:24:50 GMT
Here they tend to be cut down when they grow too big (in case they fall down and kill someone)...our new Health and Safety rules.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2010 21:52:38 GMT
"Under a spindly chestnut sapling the village smithy stands . . ."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2010 4:57:51 GMT
I imagine that disease was detected.
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Post by bjd on Apr 8, 2010 15:31:39 GMT
I just remembered I have a barber picture from Rome
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2010 16:43:34 GMT
the other side of the room trying to recover from the stupor caused by yet another boring PowerPoint presentation full of boxes and arrows linking them
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Post by bjd on Apr 8, 2010 18:37:14 GMT
The guy on the left is wishing he had a mustache he could play with.
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Post by bjd on Apr 11, 2010 7:00:49 GMT
I was looking for road pictures and found these instead. Women sewing outside in the old part of Quito, Ecuador. And the last professional photographer in El Ejido park, Quito Shoe shiners on the main square in Quito
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Post by Jazz on Apr 11, 2010 13:59:35 GMT
our lovely and intelligent tour guide, the day of Auvers-sur-Oise and Giverny,
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2010 17:17:55 GMT
Ohhh, Bjd -- that's a wonderful series.
Jazz, what an absolutely exquisite portrait!
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Post by gertie on Apr 11, 2010 20:06:31 GMT
OK first of all, all you people need to stop posting all those pictures of markets and hats. Either that, or look out, as I shall have to come there where you are! I love this thread especially. On my first trip to Paris, I got up at dawn and hurried down to watch all the workers gathering the trash, cleaning the street, washing the sidewalks....peered in at the baker baking, too! In London, up early to watch the guys with the big, paper mache heads they had made to get people to pay them for pictures of their children with various fantasy characters biking to the park by the Eye of London with their heads balanced between the handlebars of their bikes, as well as the street cleaners, garbage men, and park litter picker-uppers. I love how in each country these workers have their own style of dress and manner of work.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 12, 2010 7:58:03 GMT
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Post by bjd on Apr 12, 2010 8:04:18 GMT
I see they like sweet stuff too! I can see why you like pictures from S America, Bixa. It does look familiar. In La Calera, not far from Bogota, Colombia
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Post by bjd on Apr 12, 2010 8:11:00 GMT
Painting a wall in Cartagena, Colombia
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 12, 2010 16:30:27 GMT
Wonderful images, Bjd!
Did you see many people in traditional indigenous dress in Cartagena or any other Colombian city? It's very common here, but only with the women.
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