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Lost and found

Posted in Creativity, Serendipity, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 26, 2012| 3 Comments »

Lost or discarded?

Roof of car decorated with found objects

Artist found and created in Sausalito, Ca.  You better believe it!

Old car decorated with found objects with word "believe" in front.

And please, don’t “liberate” any of the found objects, in other words… stop stealing!!!

Found objects with clenched fist and peace symbol.

La lucha continúa.  Paz y amor a todos.

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Perfect day, part 2

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Food, Serendipity, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2012| 1 Comment »

And, then there was the Festival de los 7 Moles opening buffet lunch set amidst the beauty and tranquility of the Jardín Etnobotánico.  Serendipity and synchronicity brought us there… running into a friend, conversation, investigation (see pots below), and her enthusiasm and powers of persuasion (gracias, Rosa!) had us purchasing tickets on the spot.

While kitchen staff prepared the serving platters and bowls…

Woman in apron and wearing hairnet, scoops cooked rice out of a large bucket.

Dancers gathered on the Alameda for a calenda that would lead people the luncheon.

Two women displaying their long colorful full skirts

They included a number of small children…

Woman squatting down and clasping hands with a toddler-age boy - both in indigenous dress

The calenda, including the requisite marmota (giant cloth balloon), monos (giant puppets), band, dancers with canastas (see yesterday’s post), and the sponsoring banner of CANIRAC (national association of the restaurant and food industries), made its way up the Alcalá…

Procession with marmota, monos, and banner

before turning onto Constitución and entering the Jardín, where wait staff and divine moles awaited.

Wait staff, wearing black, white, and grey gathered next to table.

Yummm, mole negro…

Large green pottery bowls filled with black mole.

Mole amarillo…

Green pottery bowls of red colored moles

Mole coloradito…

Green ceramic pot with red mole.

Mole verde…

Green mole in green ceramic pot

There was also mole chichilo, mole manchamanteles, and mole rojo.  I tried them all!!!  And, I haven’t even mentioned the cervesa, mezcal, aguas, and appetizers of quesillo, chicharon, and tacos filled with guacamole and chapulines (grasshoppers).  You’ll have to switch over to Chris’s blog to see those and much more.  Oh, and for dessert, a scoop of each of my favorite nieves (sherbet); leche quemada (burned milk) and tuna (cactus fruit).

A day filled with light, color, music, fabulous food, and, most of all, wonderful friends — the recipe for a perfect day!

(ps)  There are almost 50 restaurants around town that will be featuring mole as part of this 12-day festival.

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Ya just never know…

Posted in Serendipity, tagged , , , on April 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

… what you will find around the corner.

Today’s drive up into the mountains and pine forests of Cuajimoloyas and Benito Júarez revealed…

Burned out car on mountain road

a burned out car…

Cow and her calf on the side of mountain road.

a cow and her calf.  And, down the mountain in Teotitlán del Valle…

Brass band on a street in Teotitlán del Valle

a brass band leading a wedding parade.

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