Gwyn’s Photoblog… Mostly Mexico (& Increasingly California)

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.

After cutting the leaves (pencas) off of each agave the jimador sharpens his coa (cutting implement).

Another panorama from the centre of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Many houses in tequila are painted some lovely colours. I’m a fan of the blues.

The last Flickrtour was to Colomos park in Providencia. Unfortunately it started pissing it down on a scale not seen since the rainy season. Everyone found their own places to shelter…