From the monthly archives:

September 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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