Category Archives: flowers

Jacaranda Season in San Miguel de Allende

Posted on 26 Feb ’13 by Salted Herring

After the win­ter I have been eagerly look­ing for­ward to the Jacaranda sea­son. I can see my neighbor’s Jacaranda tree while work­ing at my stu­dio desk. What a feast for the eye! Soon the whole town will be painted with splashes of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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“Happy Day of the Dead”

Posted on 2 Nov ’11 by Salted Herring

Feels funny to say “Happy Day of the Dead”.…we prob­a­bly don’t say so, but com­ing some­where so far to this cul­ture, and adopted ‘El Dia de los Muer­tos’ cel­e­bra­tion as one of my favorites I feel like say­ing so. Yes­ter­day I  walked to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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gone fishing.…..and back

Posted on 4 Oct ’11 by Salted Herring

OMG…so much has hap­pened. …Salted Her­ring has taken to travels.….to Xil­itla get a dose of Sr. Edward James sur­re­al­ism, made friends at the Inter­na­tional Short Film Fes­ti­val in SMA and in Gua­na­ju­ato, attended Tedx-SMA Con­fer­ence to brighten the mind ( … Con­tinue read­ing →

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duetto

Posted on 4 Jul ’11 by Salted Herring

the day has been cloudy…a lovely day for a long walk, and a cozy day to enjoy cof­fee with friends   Tweet

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rain

Posted on 30 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

rain brings happy flow­ers! Tweet

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three beautiful models

Posted on 21 May ’11 by Salted Herring

Salted Her­ring has been traveling.…yes, to the Ocean!!!!! moved back to cen­tro San Miguel…loving the loca­tion!!!!  and returned to the ‘roots’ alas back to the draw­ing board with basic sim­ple char­coal. I pre­fer to sketch fig­ure, but today I had … Con­tinue read­ing →

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wake-up sunshine

Posted on 13 Mar ’11 by Salted Herring

I’m not really a great morn­ing per­son, but when we are run­ning out of beau­ti­ful deep dark greens, col­or­ful beets or chard, or the fresh­est organic eggs one can imag­ine, I put spe­cial effort in wak­ing up before the sun. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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pretty—- or at least interesting?

Posted on 2 Mar ’11 by Salted Herring

While down­town San Miguel de Allende charms with its colo­nial build­ings and cob­ble­stone streets there is cer­tain rough beauty also in the sur­round­ing brick-walled colo­nias on the less fre­quently trav­elled paths. Tweet

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ingredients for ‘El Altar de Muertos’

Posted on 31 Oct ’10 by Salted Herring

Span­ish les­son, any­one? Poco a poco? FLOR DE CEMPASUCHIL:  sig­nifica ale­gria FIGURAS  DE ALFEÑIQUE:  los bor­re­gui­tos son los lla­ma­dos angeli­tos y los demás dul­ces son la ofrenda para ellos LAS CALAVERAS:  rep­re­sen­tan que polvo somos y en polvo nos con­ver­ti­mos Tweet

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Ordinary Day

Posted on 24 May ’10 by Salted Herring

My blog has been quiet, for a good rea­son, I believe. We have moved to cen­tro in San Miguel de Allende. Even we are vagabond­ing rather light, suit­cases only, there is always some work involved, espe­cially set­ting up the com­puter … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Diptych fun

Posted on 14 May ’10 by Salted Herring

As I’m cat­a­loging pho­tographs to be posted on my new Mun­dane Wan­der­ings web­site, I con­stantly get side­tracked to hav­ing play­time with Pho­to­Shop…sorry, now you know why I’m pro­gress­ing so slowly. Tweet

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White Bugambilia

Posted on 14 May ’10 by Salted Herring

Sub­tle savor of del­i­cate white flow­ers. Tweet

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