From the yearly archives:

2010

Day 7 — In Which There Are Very Old Churches

18 September 2010

Well, there we were, on vaca­tion, tak­ing a cou­ple of days off for fire­works and parades. But that’s all over and only the con­fetti and red, white, and green bunting are left. So it was time to get mov­ing again. Out to the Mix­teca. Once the cen­ter of cochineal pro­duc­tion and the Span­ish Empire’s new world […]

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Day 3 — Marching Bands and Plants

15 September 2010

Oof. It was late last night and I posted this entry to the wrong blog. So here it is about 12 hours late. For break­fast this morn­ing we had march­ing bands. One of the largest of the local high schools had their parade to the zocolo in honor of the Bicen­ten­nial. First there was a bit […]

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Day 2 — In Which I Resist Words

13 September 2010

So… all you get today are pic­tures. Jim’s obser­va­tions for today.

Tagged as: doors, grafitti, madonna, shoes

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Day 1 — In Which We Slack

12 September 2010

The first day here in Oax­aca is always a lit­tle slow.  I’ve been beaten up by the air­lines, the alti­tude change is more than 5000 ft, and there’s the nec­es­sary trips for sup­plies (beer.) Lead­ing to not doing much. A brief after­noon stroll to try out the new lens was all the ambi­tion I could muster. […]

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New Glass

5 September 2010

We spent a lit­tle time down at the expen­sive toy store ear­lier this week­end. We came away with two new-to-us lenses. The first is rather dull — it’s a straight across replace­ment for the 70–300 that we already had. The new one has VR, Nikon’s image stabilization/vibration reduc­tion pack­age. The longer the lens the more […]

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19 years and counting — in Winthrop

22 July 2010

Last week­end J and I spend a few days “away” in Winthrop WA. It was a nice chance to relax and spend some down time with each other. Fri­day after­noon was hot and dry when we left Seat­tle. The long route through the moun­tains (up to Hwy 20.) The canyon below Dia­blo dam was com­pletely dry. Sign […]

Tagged as: norton commando, roadtrip, winthrop wa

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Still Raining (damn it)

31 May 2010

Yup, it’s still rain­ing. Three bloody weeks of the driz­zle falling down my neck. I took advan­tage of a half hour break last week­end and went for a lit­tle ram­ble about the place. Here are some pics. The red­bud is finally bloom­ing and has a few ten­der look­ing leaves. (And some of these shots are silly and arty.) […]

Tagged as: cilantro, deer trail, honeysuckle, hot tub, iris, lilac, redbud, vine maple

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Another nice Saturday in May

15 May 2010

Tagged as: maple, peonies

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The optimism of a nice weekend in May.

8 May 2010

It is the first nice wek­end in May and like all Seat­tlites I am doing all sorts of get­ting ready for sum­mer things out­side. We have an entire week of Sunny days for­cast so it’s time to start hav­ing tea on the porch in the morn­ing. I’m still pleased with the new cush­ions I made […]

Tagged as: BBQ, laundry, porch, sunshine

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Gardening Report — March 14

16 March 2010

Last week­end the front bed with the cedars in it got new shrubs. Con­tin­u­ing the theme of happy flow­er­ing shrubs and brood­ing conifers that we started with the cedars and the (now gone) bud­dleias we’ve added more happy and more brood­ing. the weep­ing cedar bed got shrubs Start­ing with the happy, a flow­er­ing cur­rant. I’ve […]

Tagged as: Chaenomeles, Chamaecyparis, cornus, currant, dogwood, juniper, juniperus, quince, ribes, taxus, thuja, whipcord, yew

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