Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
Continuing our little walk from where we left off in Plaza Lavalle, where no doubt you’ve had enough statuary to last you for weeks, let’s look at the next ten blocks or so. First off, one of the things that’s noticeable is that there’s a lot of very similar looking, block-y white-grey buildings in what’s… Read More On Down Lavalle…
If you’re not generally involved in the local foodie community, and yes, I used the “f” word – get over it, it’s a word, it’s in use – it’s quite likely you don’t know that this weekend BA is playing host to a gastronomic fair of, while not gigantic, at least quite large, proportions. Ferí… Read More A Fair Chew
“The moment you say, ‘Please, give me a reason for this’, then you are being impossible and temperamental.” – Monserrat Caballé To see a place and a people through someone else’s eyes is often what photography is all about. You go to a gallery and stare at a picture and think, “I wish I could… Read More View Finder
Nana, Grandpa Al, Aunt Carol, Mom – 1951 This is not at all the post I’d planned for today or for these photos. But life has its moments. Almost 40 years ago my mom passed away, quite suddenly. The family fallout over the next few years created an ever widening rift between “our” family and… Read More Flowered Moment
To all my friends and family on Facebook (and since I’m posting this on my blog which will show up on my Facebook feed, also all my non-Facebook connected readers)… I can already hear the groans, oh no, not another one. Yes, a request for a repost on your status for seventeen and one quarter… Read More Run-on Status Update
It’s time for our monthly roundup of unused, disused, abused, and amused photos from the last 30 day lunar cycle. Not so many this time…. Art? Graffiti? Left the car parked too long in one spot? Abandonment issues? We had some last cold days that showed up in September and a baking dish full of… Read More Try to Remember the kind of September….
The city of Buenos Aires is peppered with small little unofficial barrios. They’re not really full barrios with any sort of recognition, they tend to be small, sort of self contained neighborhoods, often it seems having grown up around a central plaza of one sort or another. Some of them eventually become officially recognized –… Read More River Living
Picking up where I left off on my walk along Lavalle street, I thought I’d spend a little time wandering the three open square blocks of Plaza Lavalle, helpfully numbered I, II and III. I wouldn’t say that each has its own character, there are certainly differences in the layout and the foliage, but overall,… Read More Plaza Lavalle Statuary