More May

This is where Sheny and I went for a breakfast .  It is an old colonial hotel. this is the mortar & pestle they use to make the cornflour.    You can see the  grey round circle behind me,, it is the 'burner' stove they use to cook the tortiallas on and then put themin the basket beside & are covered with a beautiful guatemalan cloth.  (everywhere in town  you see women selling or cooking them.)

This is the garden  you look at from the white tables.  so pretty.  Doors in back are rooms around the garden.

This is upstairs from restaurant.  Love the colours.  chairs to sit and read , dream, etc.

This is one of my favourite stalls in the market.  She has a reputation for being very honest.
and has great produce.  A family business.  See the garlic over my head.  it is braided in ropes.
The small green by my hand is a squash  that is delicous. has only one 'seed' in the middle.
I bake it , they boil.  When you buy limes you ask for a hand.  la mano por favour,  and it is five.
We squeeze limes in our water all the time.   Did lemons at home,  and I miss lemons, but learning to use limes for many things.  Sheny always sprinkles lime juice on the chicken before she does any thing with it.

This is one of the old colonial hotels, where Sheny and I went for Breakfast.  I am at a mortar and pestle they use to make the corn tortillas.  You can see the round grey 'oven' behind me where they bake them
and then they are put in a basket and covered with a colourful guatemalan cloth.  Love that wall next to it.   In very back  are the tables.  They are very service oriented  had three people watching over you.

This is the garden infront of the mortar & pestle.  You look at it from the restaurant seating.  Very beautiful  and the bedrooms are doors in the back.
and next picture is the upstairs  very peaceful and pretty.

This is a better picture of the upstairs.  Love the colours.

update May 31/2012

Okay  these are radishes  that is a regular size lime beside to give you an idea.  they are huge.
and delicious.   Have only ever had one that was a bit woody and we get them 2 -3 times a week.

This is for Alison , Ruth & Donna.   the 'quilt ' top  I made from the expensive  upholstry fabric Alison sent, and tried to  "copy" Donna's art work of her large quilt.  No comparison in her skill and art work compared to this, but was fun.  don't know what to do with it now..  Sitting on a chair that would be great upholstrred (?) in it.

This is friend Sheny making a traditional Guatemalan dish.  Hard shell tortilla,  not flat
lettuce piece,  shredded 'pickled' beets, guatemalan white cheese (kinda tasteless), rice (only use white)  so I am trying to convert her... hardboiled eggs, sliced on top.  It becomes quite large
to get your mouth around, and messy  but delicioius.

These are two little girls  walking up the street  I passed and asked if I could take their picture on my way to the square.  they said they were  seis, and siete,  6 & 7.  they start very young to learn to carry items on their heads.  their mums  carry baskets with tortillas about 2' across and 10 12" deep.  Sure they are very heavy.   See many carrying  wood for their stoves on their heads as well.
Reading  Abundance,  I have really understood what is involved in their lives doing this.

This is a construction site,  i wanted to do before and after pictures.  on corner of 'main ' street.
up the road from us. 
steel fencing around  so will see what happens in a few weeks.  There are so many little villages around us.  Similar to Old Calgary when Bowness was not Calgary but no division.
The villages range from 40 to 60 thousand people.   But you often have 6 - 8 people living in homes the size of our living rooms!!

This is Hermana Ward  We had just taken her into the Capital for a dentist appointment.
she fell on the cobblestones and chipped her front tooth.  We stopped for lunch and this is a valley by the restaurant parking lot.   Very lush and green,  but if you looked over the wall she is leaning on,
my gosh,  so much garbage.

Oh  this is a close up of the quilt top.  Squares  tiny, then rectangle  one row of each.  It is fun because each square is such different materials, f rom velourish, to satin, to quilted, to topstiitched  etc.