This is from an antiques shop last Saturday afternoon, though I think ‘antiques’ is stretching the term slightly…

For the month of December I’ll not only be updating my blog, my photoblog, flickr, facebook and whatever else comes my way but I also took on an Atticus-themed Advent Calendar, to mark the slow build up to Xmas in Downey. Check it out if you’ve not already done so

Not sure what that is in metric, but it seems like a bargain. Let’s do the maths… 2.2lbs in a kilo so… $2.49 x 2.2= $5.48/kilo and today that’s £3.67 in pounds sterling for a kilogram of walnuts and hazelnuts. Is that a good deal?

I’ve not had a comment on this photoblog for weeks so I’m trying to invite interaction…

Coming soon… Oregon

Cages for sale in Guadalajara’s Baratillo

Hippies too sell their wares at Alameda’s Antique Market at the Air Strip on the first Sunday of every month.

This unholy vegetable was sitting in the overpriced organic market in Alameda.

Yep, there’s been a hiatus while we moved from Mexico to Oakland, California via a wonderful 3 week holiday in Somerset in the UK. Apologies for that. I’m going to keep posting Mexican photos for a while until the quality trails off then there’ll be some kind of thematic shift. I’m still not sure what it is I want to capture exactly about my new whereabouts. There’s lots of houses and the usual chain stores and I also don’t feel as comfortable wandering round with my camera as I did in Mexico, but hey ho, something will come up. Maybe I’ll advertise for muses on Craigslist.

This photo’s from Guadalajara’s Mercado de Abastos, the food market where shops and restaurants do their supply shopping.

Destroy your teeth and get stung at the same time with these delicious toffee apples on display at the Mercado de los Muertos in Parque Morelos, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Watermelon, ????, mango, watermelon. I’m not a big fruit eater/identifier.

Granted, this shot of a stairway in a multi-storey car park in Guadalajara is a tad clichéd, but with the kid in it and the coloured handrails I reckon it´s a nice shot. His T-Shirt says “You with those curves, and me with no brakes”