Pictures


Photos – The Merida Market

vendor

Marzipan

The market is endlessly fascinating. Household goods, food, small animals, clothes, musicians and small bands, jewelry, potions, saddles, spices, it’s all there. The market is not only a place where goods are sold, but a place where deals are made. There are fences and scam artists. There are people pawning the family jewelry. Maya women [...]


Photos from Yesterday

Two unusual things happened yesterday.
1. We had a helluva rain/electrical storm, hopefully the end to the awful heat we’ve been experiencing.
2. The Unrewarding Pets (feral cats in the back yard) were unusually cute.
Here are photos of these events. All the rain pics are from our front door.


Alan Luna


Animals

Dog of my dreams

More to come…


Unprepared Food


Prepared Food

More to come…


Places

Merida Mansion

Temozon wall

Teabo Yucatan churchyard

The following series of pictures are of Detroit’s Heidelberg Project. For more information on this artist’s effort to make a palette out of a crumbling neighborhood, look here. The artist who created this project is Tyree Guyton. Read more about Tyree by pressing here.

Heidelberg


People

Young farmer at Puyallup Fair, WA

Shawn and Leann cutting wedding cake

Blind keyboard player, Merida

Brisa doing Kenny’s hair

Fidel Garcia

Minako Yamamoto and her parents, Tokyo

Shoshanna and friend

Maya woman, Poxila, Yuc.

Character at Seattle’s Pike Street Market

Medicinal herbs vendor, Merida

Ileana’s daughter

Magnuson Park dog walker, Seattle

Aunt Mary Soto, Miami