Sunday, 7 May 2017
Madeleine Monday
Not more taco chips! Actually, that's fine with her. A late lunch after the Cinco de Mayo festival at Tower Taco. It's far enough down Cherokee Street that it wasn't too crowded. Minimal face painting was available for children in the PJP staging area because there were so many kids in line. The patrons weren't fussy about it.
Saturday, 6 May 2017
Oda a la Alegría
It's the beginning of May. The Lou has the double dip of the People's Joy Parade and the Cinco de Mayo Festival. There's nothing like the PJP anywhere. No bureaucracy. Anyone can join who shares the spirit. And lots of people do.
Cinco de Mayo isn't a big deal in Mexico. It marks the unlikely victory of the Mexican army over the wannabe French imperial forces. (Did you know that France was briefly the colonial power in Mexico? It was a bad idea.) In the US it has become a celebration of Mexican-American culture and an excuse to swill large amounts of Jose Cuervo and Corona. (I prefer Sol or Pacifico when drinking Mexican suds.) There's tons more of this to come.
¡Alegría, hermosa chispa de los dioses
hija del Elíseo!
¡Ebrios de ardor penetramos,
diosa celeste, en tu santuario!
Shepherds and flock on the move
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I was out walking when suddenly a cloud of dust started moving toward me from the west.
(Hint: you can enlarge the photos and solve the mystery.)
Turned out to be a large flock of sheep and goats!
Two young Bedouin shepherds and their dog kept them moving at a fast clip.
The fine dust coming into my camera (and my nose) was not a good thing but there was no way that I was going to miss this exciting photo opp!
I followed the flock.
Here we were walking part of the Israel National Trail.
Some of the goats took a minute to stand on hind legs and eat a bit of the Meitar Forest.
You can see the houses of Meitar up on the hill.
The flock moved on toward their home in the hills and I turned back to start the climb up to my home in town.
Because the sun was setting and night would soon cover the desert.
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(Linking to Camera Critters.)
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I was out walking when suddenly a cloud of dust started moving toward me from the west.
(Hint: you can enlarge the photos and solve the mystery.)
Turned out to be a large flock of sheep and goats!
Two young Bedouin shepherds and their dog kept them moving at a fast clip.
The fine dust coming into my camera (and my nose) was not a good thing but there was no way that I was going to miss this exciting photo opp!
I followed the flock.
Here we were walking part of the Israel National Trail.
Some of the goats took a minute to stand on hind legs and eat a bit of the Meitar Forest.
You can see the houses of Meitar up on the hill.
The flock moved on toward their home in the hills and I turned back to start the climb up to my home in town.
Because the sun was setting and night would soon cover the desert.
.
(Linking to Camera Critters.)
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