This statement by okcForgottenMan written as a comment to these photographs is so true and so related to these photos of Daniel’s house and place of business that was next to the house I rented in La Manzanilla for a few months each year that I must reproduce it here:

“I marvel at how Mexican businesses (and some homeowners) build doorways so differently from what I know in the U.S., where our doors are rigidly defined, narrow, and usually closed (even if they automatically open). There in Mexico, the doorways to the shops are usually wide enough to drive a car through, and they stay open, inviting, during business hours. They blur the distinction between being in the shop and being just outside. Viva Mexico!”

For Reena’s Exploration Challenge #402 the prompt is: Passages, Doorways, Thresholds, Transitions