Under the shade of the palapa on a Mexican beach the eyes hide from the tropical sun.  The flora is infused with the colours of sunshine.  With greens.  With magenta. With an iridescence that glows Read More …

The lead painting by Luci Vidales can be found in the veterans gallery in Guadalajara. Her art speaks to the place and spacing of women in our time and culture.  Resting on a bench to Read More …

In Guadalajara we visited sights and neighborhoods and one of the more friendly encounters was with a low wheeled police vehicle.  There were smiles, recognition that this was a more friendly approach for both ecology Read More …

The sun glows through the high plateau pine.  In the background Lake Chapala holds the morning clouds dear as the sun breaks across the vista.  We spent last night in Jocotepec with Margarets brother Casey Read More …

Once more on the C. Del Moro a greeting, a rest stop, a welcome.  Along the way we discovered size and scale in many details. I was privileged to spend Thursday evening in a twelve Read More …

The pointed spyres of white gladiolas rival for dominance in their finger pointing.  The cluster perched in the public market hints at tradition and aesthetics and a delight in natural patterns. The rich red of Read More …

In Puerto Escondido the walls are alive with dancing surf boards.  Somehow I think I’ve arrived a decade late in a town where surfers are more important than all-inclusives.  Vegetarian food and seafood abound.  The Read More …

All that blue stuff wrapped around monuments will need to wait.  Sitting across from a Dutch couple (ok he was and she was an American who spoke better Dutch than I did) in a French Read More …

The double walls of the house at number 2 conceal a corridor.  The woman guiding us through the house where she now lives shows us the hidden tunnels and the passageways used during the Second Read More …

Passing through a field of sunflowers we enter into the city of Arles.  The Roman amphitheater is a few centuries older than the stages for the Van Gogh paintings and provides more than focus to Read More …