One of our very favorite places to visit was the giant market in the middle of the beautiful city of Guadalajara. I knew it as the Mercado Libertad (Liberty Market), and it’s also called the Mercado San Juan de Dios. I could have spent weeks browsing everything on offer in the mercado; it is the largest indoor market in Latin […]
Visiting small churches in isolated villages and various neighborhoods, or colonias, in the larger towns and cities was a big part of our summer trips to Mexico. There were always lots of curious children… The people we met were always incredibly kind and eager to share whatever they had with us — even when they had very little, compared to what […]
The more I look through my dad’s slide collection, the more I wish he had kept notes! I know that he shared these slides often, and he had his reasons for arranging them in their present order (which is definitely not chronological), but his presentation notes were all in his head, so now I can only guess. There were always […]
Welcome to the first installment of Mexico Monday! After (belatedly) doing a little math last night, I realized that if I share one picture each week it would take me 2 years (!) to finish the first bunch of slides. And so I decided to post 2-3 images each week, at the very least. Also, one of my awesome readers, Galen911, has asked about the scanner […]
I’ve never done any theme days on my blog — unless you can count the photo challenges I take part in twice each week — but I’m thinking maybe now is a good time to try one out. I took on a project a couple of months ago that I’ve been excited about for awhile: namely, scanning and archiving the […]