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Momentos Magico en San Miguel

Monday, June 15, 2009

Los Locos

Nancy makes friends with the locos

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Our Last Night in Town

The rain poured and the politicians roared, but that didn't stop the Tres Hernamas from having a good time!

Tres Hermanas

en Guanejuato

Sisters are different....

They heard the sobbing in the darkness. They lived through all your triumphs, all your favorites, all your loves and losses. They have no delusions. They lived with you too long. And so, when you achieve some victory, friends are delighted - but sisters hold your hands in silence and shine with happiness. For they know the cost."-- Pam Brown

Ole !

Lily's Present from Guanejuato

GUANEJUATO

Pippilia

A revolutionary war hero in Guanejuato

Joyce can't decide on her hat

there are too many to pick from!

SISTERS

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. ~ Rose Macaulay

On the Streets of San Miguel

Nancy Clowns at Belles Artes

Adorable Little Los Locos

Los Locos Ninos

there was swingin, swayin and record playin

and dancin in the streets !

Bumping Butts con Las Locos

Com Mi Hermanicita in La Parque Juarez

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~ Isadora James

Mi Hermanas

At Belles Artes

First Communion

There must have been 30 little boys and girls decked out in white for their first communion on Saturday - ADORABLE !

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. ~ Albert Einstein

She's No Angel !

Penny & Nancy at Bello Italio

Our big night out - dogless!

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

It's very far away...It takes about a half a day to get there... If we travel by--dragonfly. ~ Jimi Hendrix

This is how they handle their rainwater down here.

Much more attractive than 'gutters,' don't you think?

Look Closely!

It's an unusual water fountain

EL SOL

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls. ~ Mother Theresa

Just a Couple of Asses on the Street

A common sight in San Miguel

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if we only seek them with our eyes open. ~ Jawaharal Nehru

At the Hacienda Restaurant

Jacque & Penny

".... In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Play that Funky Music Brown Boy

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. ~ Margaret Mead

The Sun and Sultan Dictate My Life

He 'woofs' me awake when the sun comes again; He 'woofs' me to bed when the sun goes down.

The Bells

The different church bells, all over town, ring at odd increments - there sees no rhyme or reason to it all to the tintinabulation of the bells, bells, bells...

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a women. ~ A Mexican Proverb

"Just Living Isn't Enough," said the Butterfly

One must also have sunshine, freedom and a little flower. ~ Kahlil Gibron

The Sultan of San Miguel!

My lil buddy who keeps me walking my legs off every day!

The Egrets are Nesting in the Trees Near My Casita

and my-oh-my-oh what a mess!

Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. ~ Ralph Crawshaw

The Choregraphy of El Marcado

Soundlessly they work each knowing what her role is in getting ready for the morning

El Marcado Opens

Early in the morning its fun to watch the choreography of setting up the market. They do it EVERY DAY - 7 days a week!

If you should hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think it is a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a gringo in Mexico--ah, that is euthanasia." Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914 From a letter to a relative before leaving for Chihuahua en route to visit Pancho Villa's troops. Carlos Fuentes wrote the Old Gringo about him.

Jackie's Going Away Party

What fun! It reminded me of my going away party in Kosovo...all the young people having such a great time!

Penny

One of the women I've been hanging out with in San Miguel -a very special lady!

Jackie

Leaves next week and we are sure going to miss her!

Mona

Jackie is dog-sitting Mona. She & Sultan have become good friends

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

COFFEE

A certain Liquor which they call Coffee...which will soon intoxicate the brain. - G. W. Parry (1601)

Starbucks

In the courtyard of Starbucks are several umbrella sheltered tables...a lovely place to spend afternoon time

Rose for sale - CHEAP!

Special price for you Senora

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Street Snapshot

I love seeing the nuns wearing traditional habits....but they have got to be HOT !

One of the Old Timers....

selling potting soil door - to - door

there'll se singin, swayin and record playin

AND DANCIN IN THE STREETS

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather we should skid in sideways, totally worn out and screaming, WOO HOO what a ride!"

Iglasia Concepcion

Most prefer the pink Parroqua, but this is still this old family planning nurse's farvorite church in town - La Concepcion

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~ Diane Ackerman (and Nancy L. Harless says amen to that! )

La Paroquia from the Instituto

This church has been photographed millions of times...and many times be me!

Hakki's Pozole

A Shrine in the Market

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. there is no why. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

A Stained Glass Window on a Wall Near the Jardin

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing ~ Louise Borgeois

Norm Has Left the Casa

Norm headed back to Iowa early this morning.He will plant the garden. When I go home I will weed it.

The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow
which I never saw before. ~ Samuel Johnson

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~ Chinese Proverb

Nurses Week Flowers

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~ Saint Augustine

The Bougainvillea is in Full Bloom !

Sultan - King of the Casa!

So, we turn to the Good Book for our answers of what to do about the flu challenges....

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. Timothy 1:23

THERE is NO FLU HERE !

Q and the Soldier at El Instituto

with all the cities events canceled we are making our own fun in San Miguel.

Mary 'fights' the angel at El Instituto

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking Nancy

the bouganvilla is lush this time of year

Monopoly Money?

Sultan - The King of Quinta Recreo

This is the sweet pooch I am sitting

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ~ Johnny Depp

Panteon Guadelupe Cemetery

The Foyers of Belles Artes

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

Another piece by Baullosa

Norm Clowns at the Art School

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. ~ Fredrich Neitzshche

Another Garden God

Thin Places

Those places or events in life where the dividing line between the holy and the ordinary is very thin... to the point that the ordinary becomes holy and the holy becomes ordinary

Garden Statue

Our Casita's gardens are full of plants, flowers and many gods - the garden is a very 'thin place'

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
Josh Billings

The Spiritual path ...is simply the journey of living our lives.

~ Marianne Williamson

Life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport is stamped and you find yourself speechless among the money changers.
~Graham Green (another Mexico)

Unusual invitations to travel are dancing lessons from God.
~ Kurt Vannegut, Jr.

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Norm and Nancy: Spokane Valleyr, WA, United States; Retired nurse practitioner living each moment as if it were her last one....because each one very well may be!

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