Saturday, April 30, 2016

Casa las Olas in Todos Santo

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Ed.,

The address plate on our house's gate.  I really like the stylized painting of the fish and roiling waves,  ,  ,


I did leave them an alternative nameplate:


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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Drawing: Faces #1402 - Fellow Travelers in Baja

By Jack Brummet, North American Travel Editor



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John Boehner tears into Senator Ted Cruz


Here's what former SotH John Boehner had to say about the GOP-TP establishment candidate yesterday in a forum at Stanford University.  “Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner said, “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Wood sculptor at work in Todos Santos

By Jack Brummet, NA American Travel Ed.

This amazing wood sculptor was hard at work in a hallway adjoining an art gallery in El Centro de Todos Santos.



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Marriage banns in Mexico

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Ed.

I don't remember seeing these before in Mexico, but in the state of Baja California Sur, the Catholic Church still publishes marriage banns.  These were posted in the lobby of a church in Todos Santos. The banns more or less replace a marriage license and allow anyone to object to a wedding prior to its occurrence.  Most priests--in an article on banns I read--say they cannot recall anyone ever objecting.




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A cactus garden in Todos Santos, BCS

Photos by Jack Brummet, NA Travel Ed.




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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Faces 1401 - drawn on a very large chunk of broken tile

By Jack Brummet

[Drawing on an approximately 19" x 9" ceramic fragment (way too bug for a roof tile) I found in a ditch in Todos Santos].

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Photos from Todo Santos, Part 2

By Jack Brummet, N.A. Travel Ed.

Cardon cactus



 Ceramic figures at the Museum of Faces

 Keelin on the beach



 Cactus garden

 Cactus garden

 Cactus garden

 panorama of the desert near our house



street painting of a whale in La Paz


Maureen in a great taco stand that cooks two things: shrimp and fish tacos (great!)

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Drawing: Faces #1400 - mask on palm bark

By Jack Brummet

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Vikingo Video in Todos Santos

By Jack Brummet, North American Travel Ed.

At Vikingo Video,  three guys play rock non-stop.  They have, at most, a couple hundred DVDs in the tiny store.  I don't know how you'd rent a video, since they never stop playing and to browse you need to step over amps, cables, and cymbal stands. Maybe you wait for a set break.

What they might lack in chops, they more than make up for with enthusiasm and quantity.  I love these guys.


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Sunday, April 24, 2016

The best periodic table ever

From http://bluebell-bubbles.tumblr.com/

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Photos from Todos Santos, Baja California Sur

By Jack Brummet, North American Travel Ed. 
 
A hotel above the beach at El Cerrito

Water concerns

The Viagra Mascot

Beach sculpture

the beach near our house is miles long and rarely has more than two or three people on it

zoning seems non-existent and largely voluntary

the nameplate outside our house
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Drawing: Faces #1398 - more fun with conduit in Baja



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Wednesday, April 20, 2016