It’s Martini season again! There’s nothing better than taking a nice stroll around town in the hot sun, ordering an icy red vermouth, and sitting on the bar’s patio to sip it. Lovely!
If you’re confused about what I mean by Martini (and the word has a very different meaning in Spain than in [...]

This car was parked outside my building today. The entire car was covered with these colorful letters. I flipped the photo 180º to get the letters upright. Pretty loud, huh?

On Saturday there was an exhibition of the local Colindres bobbin lace (bolillo) club. We went because one of our salsa dancing friends, Ana, is going to classes and participates in those events. She had an abanico, Spanish hand fan, that she was working on. It looks pretty doggone complicated to my [...]

Last weekend we went to a cheese festival, called Quesucada, in nearby Laredo. We missed it last year and regretted not going. It turned out to be nothing but a dozen vendor stands crammed too closely together such that you couldn’t see anything or walk comfortably. There was a bunch of shouting [...]

Two colorful photos I took last week. Several sets of houses around town have received new and colorful paint jobs and it has made a huge difference. They used to look old and rundown, and now they look less old and generally more happy.

Just four photos I’ve taken around the house recently: two of the natural world, and two of human creations.

These are some photos I took during a sunny walk around Colindres last week. Things are slowly warming up here. Still haven’t worn any shorts yet, but the day is coming.

I have not yet lost my newfound fascination for tilt shifting. I’ve been searching through my photos for more candidates as well as looking for Flickr photos with Creative Commons licenses (that means you’re legally allowed to modify and republish as long as you cite the original source) to play around with. Here [...]

Occasionally the sky does something that makes me run to get my camera. I took the last two yesterday morning. Yesterday I had to get up at sunrise to go to the doctor to have some blood taken for analysis. Not because I’m ill, but because I’m healthy. It’s been almost [...]

Just two photos that I took around town recently. The first is from a series of trees that line the street across from some now demolished houses. It’s fashionable here to link neighboring trees together through grafting. These flowers were on one of the arcs between the trees.
The second photo is right [...]