Monthly Archives: May 2016

Bougainvillea: Flower of the Day, May 14, 2016

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Cultural Shunning

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Cultural Shunning

We tend to underestimate,
to isolate or tease or bait
the children of the heads of state
sent to our country to educate.

We shun them or we inundate
with judgments that excoriate
their daily prayers that ululate,
or trappings that seem too ornate.

Before you do, please choose to wait,
considering what is the fate
of these strangers you think you hate
who’ve entered in our nation’s gate.

That student that you underrate?
That strange man that you will not date,
make fun of over dress or weight?
One day may be a potentate!

I wonder, can you “guesstimate”
how likely when he’s called to rate
our country as a foe or mate––
he is to underestimate?

The word prompt today was “Underestimate.”

Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge, Week 25, Music

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One Word Photo Challenge: Bulb

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Face Off

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This always lovely, almost always smiling lady of 96 was caught here in a reflective moment as she sat covered by a shawl to ward off cool lake breezes.  We were on a pontoon boat on Lake Chapala, listening to the children’s choir and orchestra and sipping wine made from local raspberries. Perhaps the music triggered a memory. Certainly, there is a far away look in these eyes.  I love this picture even though it really does not capture her usual bright, positive attitude. I guess the secret of why we are so intrigued by photos is their ability to capture and share with us those fleeting moments otherwise lost.

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Snowy Egret: A Vision of Maternity

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It would be hard to choose which sense is most stimulated by Mexico.  I’ve written a few times about the sounds of Mexico as well as her flavors, but for me it is the visions of Mexico that top my sensory list of thrills.  Time and time again, it has been color that has attracted the lens of my camera, but last week I exited Cafetto Saga and happened to look up at the monstrous “Egret tree” where egrets perch for the night and I was thrilled to have this opportunity to photograph  white––not only the snowy perfection of egrets, but to also find that I was in a perfect location to photograph this mother and her chicks.  The somewhat goofy appearance of the chicks offsets the elegance of the adults.  I especially love the one of the chick stretched out to caress its mother’s beak. In fifteen years, I have never lost my excitement in viewing these graceful, gorgeous birds.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/vision/

H is for Horse: 26 Weeks Letter Challenge & Cee’s Oddball Challenge, 2016, Week 19

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Yes, folks, now you have seen it all! This actually is a life-sized replica of a horse—made into a lamp!! If it is zany, one-of-a-kind or in multiples, you can find it at Galeria el Triunfo in Guadalajara—along with thousands of other unique items from canes with built-in flashlights to a diving bell made into a walk-in bar!

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26 Weeks Letter Challenge: “H”

The Floral Occasion: Flower of the Day May 13, 2016

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I loved this street scene–with everyone walking right down the middle of the street.  Sidewalks in Mexico seem to be used more for sitting, setting up little mom and pop stores and for courtship rituals.  Everything else seems to occur in the streets.  Cars stop in the middle of the street for their drivers to talk to passing friends, kids play ball there, dogs hobnob, trucks or cars with loudspeakers drive oh so slowly, blasting their news, fruit trucks or gas trucks or water trucks distribute their wares, garbage trucks park while their workers run to neighboring houses to pick up garbage. Construction workers pile huge mountains of sand and brick there, and the recently bereaved erect tents they fill with chairs for mourners, blocking off the entire street.  Sometimes it seems as though the passage of traffic is of the least consideration.

 

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On My Way Home: Thursday Doors, May 12, 2016

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The other day I decided to avoid the main road and take neighborhood streets most of the way home.  This is what I saw.

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Old Flame (A Maiden Aunt’s Testimony of Survival)

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Old Flame

“I stood and craned my neck to C
if I could make out the ID
of the one my parents chose for me.

He’d courted them from A to Z
and then proposed on bended knee,
but even though I knew that he

suited my father to a T,
I said that it was not to B.
He did not set my spirit free

nor make me want to be a “we,”
so I’m afraid that his suttee
was never fueled by such as me.”

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