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Reblog for SoCS prompt “Tower”

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Howdy, folks. Forgottenman here yet again feeding Judy’s blog a bit while she toils away in Buenavista, Quintana Roo, for a month to concentrate on finishing her Ethiopian memoir. Earlier I posted links to a couple of her older blogs, and here’s yet another, this time from her time spent in La Manzanilla on Jalisco’s Pacific shore.

Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt this week is “tower”, so I searched Judy’s blog for that word and this post from 2016 popped up. Happy reading, y’all!

Tower of Bobble

Isidro’s Creations, in Paint and in the Flesh

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Isidro’s Gallery, San Juan Cosala
Paloma, Isidro’s daughter
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Some in the crowd were very taken with the refreshments.

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These are some shots of Isidro Xilonsochitl’s show at the Cultural Center in Ajijic Plaza, taken yesterday, March 4, 2022, at the opening reception. The show consisted of a number of very large canvasses as well as multi-image sculptures. The children pictured are his grandchildren, the lovely woman at the refreshment table is his daughter Paloma, the mother of two of the children.

One Word Photo Challenge: Copper

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The copper vases were all hand raised in Santa Clara del Cobra, near Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.  I couldn’t find my pictures of artisans at work, unfortunately, but perhaps some day they will magically appear.  The woman is a Tarahumara woman from Copper Canyon, where I didn’t see any copper for sale, but the women make incredible pine needle baskets.  The murals are from the ceiling of a church at the bottom of the Canyon.  Seems like Copper Canyon pictures qualified.  I could have taken the Pepsi bottle out of the picture, but it is more authentic with it.  Pepsi actually made it to Mexico (at least my part of Mexico) before Coca Cola did.  I have a story about that.  Perhaps one day… The bracelets are from Santa Clara del Cobra and Africa.

For more Copper photos, go here:
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2015/04/07/one-word-photo-challenge-copper-2/