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Bright Spot: FOTD Mar 21, 2023

 

 

I’ve passed this second-story hideaway at the junction of two of the busiest streets in Ajijic hundreds of times, always wishing traffic would stop or that I had my camera out.  This time, it happened…but I only had time enough to squeeze off one shot. The flowers and bright colors and brickwork almost make one overlook the ugly jumble of overhead wires.

For Cee’s FOTD

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

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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