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.