I suddenly felt like posting a few mostly blue photos from our recent trip to Chicago. Since it’s already well past midnight, I won’t futz around much and just pull them in here without comment and in random order, let the blues sound as it may. Good night, friends, have a great week!
Read more "Quick & Dirty Chicago Blues"“When they begin the beguine, to live it again is past all endeavor” The confusing lyrics of this 1935 Cole Porter piece describe quite nicely our amazing two weeks in the City of Chicago, where it didn’t begin for us, but which we somehow regard as our Beguinage, the center of our personal universe. The […]
Read more "Begin the Beguine"Fall moved in overnight, autumn took charge without preamble, so …. …. we had to search for protective cover and covering in the Contemporary Art Museum and found this feather coat reminiscent of a full-length Skrälinger shirt. I have to tell you about those sometime. But for that amazing Nordic Saga we need more than […]
Read more "It’s Blowin’ !"We’re currently doing a home exchange with a family in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The available internet or WiFi or WLan isn’t especially available, unfortunately, so I’ve to beg your patience till I get back home, before I can post about all those amazing sights and sites from my beloved City of Winds. Meanwhile, just a few […]
Read more "Chi Town Teaser"The heads come upon you quite suddenly or are you coming upon the heads? Chicago is always good for a surprise, a shock to the central nervous system. I think, the girls are laying in wait for us, quietly, and with a gentle smile on their lips. And they are girls, sculpted from laser images […]
Read more "Ordinary heads of ordinary people – Not"Almost 40 years ago we bought several carvings in an Indonesian village dedicated to woodwork, which somehow started an interest in indigenous art. Over the decades, we built a small collection of 2- & 3-dimentional works of art of peoples of North America, whenever possible purchasing directly from the artist or craftsperson. Here in Costa […]
Read more "Las Artes y Los Borucas"He came by early this morning. As he had done a number of times during the last two months. He settled on a branch of our gigantic yellow jacaranda (Schizolobium parahyba), called ‘El Gallinazo’ (chicken-footed: the shallow root system can look like bird feet). Well hidden as he was in the bright green shimmery fuzzy foliage […]
Read more "Bowing Practice"Visiting a waterfall naturally implies a lot of moisture. However when we spent the morning at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens with our visiting kids last week, there was a whole lot more water falling from the sky then crashing down those waterfalls! We were forced to purchase lovely “Pura Vida” ponchos conveniently offered in the […]
Read more "Mostly Water and some Tasty Chicharrones"Starting today, I am moving forward and refocusing on pura vida with a first plunge into the lap pool this year! The water is still a little murky, granted, but in those high-end spas people pay top dollar for algae packs and assorted nonsense. I figure a few greenish clouds won’t do me any harm. Thank […]
Read more "Araçari Alert"“Ihr Lieben Goldigen” this has been my greeting for my far-away family for most of those decades I’ve lived abroad. It was the header in uncountable letters to my parents, those real, pre-internet letters, written on crinkly onionskin stationary to reduce the cost of overseas postage. This very personal address is composed of “My Dears” and […]
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NOT IN A STRAIGHT LINE by Photolera Claudinha 