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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 1, 2018 18:58:26 GMT
ooh I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at that fried potato stand...my lot would love those spirals. My favourite pic tho is of the street performer getting ready....beautiful glorious reds against the pale stone.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2018 19:07:40 GMT
I really like the "messiness" of authentic Mexican poinsettias. I grew up seeing the perfect little poinsettias in all of the identical little pots at the supermarket in December, and it was hard to imagine such plants ever growing naturally. It is so nice to see them in their native element. Thanks, Kerouac. They really are ungainly messy plants in their native element. I have a friend who grows them commercially, so now I know how they get all those nice pots ready for Christmas: they cut off and root the flowering tips in order to get stocky plants all in flower. Ha ha, Cheery ~ my sister had never had fried-on-the-spot potato chips/crisps, so I bought her some nice hot ones from a stand. She quivered like a dog on point and wanted to know why everyone didn't eat them all the time to the exclusion of everything else. Thanks for the picture compliment. The performer was nothing but a heaving rounded lump of coverings while I was taking the tree pictures, then picked himself up and scurried, still covered, over to that post. Stick around, please ~ there will be more.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 1, 2018 19:11:31 GMT
Those crisps look lovely. Fresh crisps are so much better than supermarket ones (though no more healthful). I was wondeouring how plastic or plaster beasties could smell of urine. Real ones!
But the poor BVMs. Those infants are far too large to get born without serious damage to the "lady parts". I love their rebozos though, and agree about the beautiful poinsettias.
Where is Darla?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2018 19:26:17 GMT
True about the big babies, but doesn't little Jesus have a fine, fine head of hair? You can just see Darla's wagging behind in the picture of Harley standing up -- third from the bottom in that group.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 1, 2018 19:35:35 GMT
¡Ooooo! ¡Perrito lindo!
The wee girl is cute too...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 1, 2018 20:27:39 GMT
Doggies, bubbles and the moon....perfect evening really 😁
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2018 22:05:04 GMT
LaGatta, that little girl and her mother are from the state of Chiapas. The girl was interested in the dogs, so I brought them closer. She grabbed all three leashes ~ just darling! It was perfect, Cheery. There is, however, something coming up that may not be to everyones taste. That sounds like the best kind of culture shock to have, Huckle! Thanks to all for enjoying my little foray. There is one more set to finish off yesterday evening. It may have been noticed that there are no grand displays of lights. If anyone lives where there are such displays, bring them on, please. Ditto any decked out houses &/or neighborhoods, something that I do miss from the US. Really, anything you've got ~ show it off!
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Post by questa on Jan 2, 2018 3:51:46 GMT
Fabulous photos (and smells if you are a dog) So glad you live in such a colourful city and can share with us. I think the 2 sculptors forgot to check with each other re scale of statuary. Early Christian paintings used a strange scale for Baby Jesus. Adults were depicted with a head-to body-ratio of 1:8 while babies were 1:5. To show that Jesus was born with all the wisdom and knowledge of an adult, Nativity paintings show the Baby with 1:8 ratio. It is weird sometimes to see a pictorially normal Baby with a small head that looks microcephalic.
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Post by bjd on Jan 2, 2018 6:14:13 GMT
What are those long colourful tubes for sale in bundles once you turn onto Alameda?
I can understand nearly any newcomer's reaction to the colours of Mexico when coming from tamer parts!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2018 18:06:20 GMT
I'm not sure I understand that whole ratio thing, Questa. Wouldn't baby Jesus wind up looking macrocephalic rather than micro-?
Bjd, those tubes are long balloons. I'm surprised I didn't accidentally catch some flying through the air in any pictures. They are available and popular all year long, as kids like throwing and bouncing them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 2, 2018 18:50:20 GMT
They were big in Paris about 15 years ago. The version sold in France was a little fatter.
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Post by rikita on Jan 2, 2018 23:51:57 GMT
you spoke of poinsettias earlier - these are some i saw in kerala ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2018 0:34:57 GMT
Kerouac, taller and fatter ones are available here, too. They've been selling those things ever since I've lived here & presumably before, along with the gazillions of mylar balloons and inflatable figures. I've never figured out how the balloon vendors here figure there is enough population to buy up the masses of balloons they offer.
Lovely photos, Rikita. It looks as though the poinsettia has naturalized in Kerala.
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Post by questa on Jan 3, 2018 8:53:12 GMT
I'm not sure I understand that whole ratio thing, Questa. Wouldn't baby Jesus wind up looking macrocephalic rather than micro-? Don't worry, I couldn't understand my own explanation...falling asleep. I will try to make it lucid. Artists sometimes use some accepted proportions for sketching human figures. Think cabbages...an adult has the size of one cabbage for head and 8 cabbages in a line for the rest of its height. Babies heads are much bigger in proportion to adult heads. They have one cabbage for the head and only 5 cabbages to be in proportion. As they "Grow up" they put on more height (cabbages) and the proportions change to adult 1:8 With religious art the practice was to draw the baby to adult proportions. Instead of a chubby 1:5, big head, we saw a baby that looked long and thin with an apparent smaller than usual head ie a 1:8 proportioned baby. [aside] Little People and dwarves have fascinated us for ages purely because they showed a different set of proportions to the norm. Some had 1:8 ratio and looked like everyone else only tiny. Others had little growth in their long bones but head and torso grew to normal size...and pretty close to 1:5. Our brains had to process a person looking like a baby 1:5, but had a deep voice and a beard.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 3, 2018 9:35:41 GMT
You learn something every day here....
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 3, 2018 10:19:59 GMT
Bjd, those tubes are long balloons. I'm surprised I didn't accidentally catch some flying through the air in any pictures. They are available and popular all year long, as kids like throwing and bouncing them. I imagine they can also make a sound when struck. I've seen something of the kind used by people applauding the runners in the London marathon. And they'd make for a somewhat comical play sword-fight. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Jan 3, 2018 22:17:04 GMT
Artists sometimes use some accepted proportions for sketching human figures. OMG !About 65 years have passed since I learned this theory. This morning, looking for something else, this showed up on my screen. You can see the attempts to paint a baby to 1:8...yeccch! www.sadanduseless.com/2017/12/ugly-renaissance-babies/
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2018 0:24:44 GMT
Speaking of size ~
This happened the day I took the last pictures, as I was walking down the pedestrian street. I had the dogs with me, and they usually get attention because they're small & all around the same size. We passed a family with two post-toddler girls in a stroller. As we passed them, I heard one of the girls squeal, "Ohhh, están igualiiiiiiitos!". When I turned around, I realized the girls were identical twins.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 0:54:13 GMT
I must say the last photo is a real stand out Bixa.
(I do wonder where all this "stuff", balloons etc. end up when they aren't sold or go kaput. Is there a special place where balloons go after they die?)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 0:55:22 GMT
You learn something every day here.... This made me laugh very hard. Thank you!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2018 0:59:16 GMT
Thanks, but if you're referring to that last poinsettia, that's Rikita's photo. Is there a special place where balloons go after they die? Let's face it: do we really know where condoms come from?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 1:09:11 GMT
Our twisted sister/"helper"... I meant the last parting shot of yours Bixa. (Not to say Rikita's isn't nice but, I really don't care for that member of the euphorbias, the natives en masse aren't too bad).
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 4, 2018 8:40:40 GMT
Thanks, but if you're referring to that last poinsettia, that's Rikita's photo. Is there a special place where balloons go after they die? Let's face it: do we really know where condoms come from? Big buildings. Condominiums.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 4, 2018 10:16:20 GMT
Let's face it: do we really know where condoms come from? Somewhere where Mrs Dawson is very busy
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2018 15:38:22 GMT
Big buildings. Condominiums. *SNORK!* I imagine Mrs. Dawson is enjoying a well-deserved retirement now. She probably still can't bear to look at balloons, rubber gloves, etc. though.
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