Clearly spring has sprung

Girlfriends Wanted

Eternity in Blue

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pretty thatched hut

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Somewhere in the jungle in southern Mexico. :)

before the dressers arrive

Grabbed this shot with my Android the other day in a section of The Bay devoted to selling Canada to Canadians.

white mannequins

tropical hacienda

*Sigh* Wish I was in the hot sun. I live in BC’s temperate rain forest and for days and days the climate is living up to its name.

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the Dalai Lama turns 81

Happy Birthday to His Holiness. May it be a day of peace and giggles.

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line, colour, contrast, light

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southern tip of Cabo

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The tips of land masses have a strong magnetic attraction for me, perhaps because I can really feel the cataclysm of earth’s continental shifts.

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Cabo was so evocative I even got myself out of bed at dawn so I could take more photos.

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Tijuana

Took these shots while traveling in the Mexican Baja.

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I wasn’t going to Tijuana, but it’s a border town with a wild wild west reputation and has always figured large in my imagination.

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Morning in the market

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Chichicastenango, Guatemala, early 90s

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jungle cowboys

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San Ignacio, Cayo District, Belize

favourite 5 star hotel

San Ignacio, Belize, early 90s.

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blending in

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Gecko lizard

boots on the ground

While traveling with backpack–especially when one is solo and most open to random encounters– you can meet the most fascinating people. One day I was poking around a recently-discovered Mayan archaeological site and met a young woman dressed in fatigues.

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We sat on the stones and she told me some of her story: European born, a sometimes translator for the UN in France, found herself in Central America, got involved in a resistance movement and became a smuggler of cash for their cause, among other activities. She allowed me to take a photo of her boots.

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fruit vendors

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On the shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, early 90s. The thing I love the most about these photos is the sheen on the Mayan man’s forearm and the way it highlights his thick veins ~~ blood as river, body as map.

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Mayan girls

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These photos were taken in the early 90s. If memory serves, the village was somewhere on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

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more from Agua Azul

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Is there a word for the base of a waterfall where the water churns with so much force that it never gives the body back?

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Agua Azul, Mexico

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This series of waterfalls are located between Palenque and San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, southern Mexico.

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