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Eli
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Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Hola from Vera Cruz
Hola, Everyone,
(Specifically Judy and Nena - I tried to answer Your U2's but couldn't send for some reason. So, I hope You see this message.)
Yes, I am in a small cityon the edge of a forest in Vera Cruz. Cool, sleeping under a blanket kind of place. It is sooooooooo green, of course because
it rains like crazy here. I am not to far from the water fall that appears in old Harrison Ford movie "Romancing the Stone".
Taking art classes 3 days a week at the neatest little Casa de Cultura. And continuing to paint on my own. The art continues to grow.
Just moved into an apartment with giant views of a meadow and green forest in the back ground.
For sure an excellent place to hide from the heat at home. I like it alot here.
Hope You all have a gentle summer in Baja. Weather wise, so far so good!
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Gypsy Jan
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Hi to You, Nice to Hear From You
I hope that all is well.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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toneart
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Hello Eli! I am so happy to see you posting here. It has been a long time. I really respect your lifestyle and your spirit! 
Tony
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Natalie Ann
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Sweet Sara - always a beautiful location, creating and enjoying.
My love to you, amiga.
nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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capt. mike
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Hi Sara - always have thoughts of you and Jimmy.
enjoy the cool!
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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BajaGringo
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Location: La Chorera
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Eli, even though we have never met I have always loved your spirit that I sense through your posts. I have spent time in the Veracruz area and it
truly is a beautiful place that inspires the artist in all.
Wishing you the very best...
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Eli
Super Nomad
Posts: 1471
Registered: 8-26-2003
Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Hi Mike, it has been years now seen we last met by Don Jimmy's bed at the Vet's hospital, someday I hope are paths will cross again besides just here.
Jan, Yes, all is pretty good, a few ouches that come with having used these ol bones to their max, but worth the journey, my soul is at peace with the
world that presently surrounds me.
Nena, Love right back at ya, I would Love to see YOU! Ah well, maybe this winter we will again connect at the gallery, it continues to develop.
Tony, thank you, it is a ditto, when I do check into Baja Nomad's, I always look forward to your posts!
The Sun has chosen to shine on me this morning, even so, the color of the sky is a light gentle gray. Haven't seen the intense blues and radical
oranges, purples and reds in the sky since I left Baja. So, for now I will just enjoy all the green earth that the gray skies provide.
Coatapec is the type of Provincial City that still has milk deliveries by Men on horse back with the old style 5 gallon tin cans and cup hung from the
saddle.
There is still much to explore here, I can imagine staying for a good while yet to come.
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Iflyfish
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Wonderful images of old Mexico, your post is like watching a rainbow. You can always tell an artist by how many colors are used in each paragraph.
Salud!
Iflyfish
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Paula
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Sara, it is always so nice to hear about where you are and what you are doing. The picture of your gallery that Nena posted reminded me that we never
got to Los Barriles this year, and I missed seeing what sweet work you've been doing. I hope we get down next year.
Your home for this summer sounds beautiful! Have a wonderful time there!
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bajajudy
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Location: San Jose del Cabo,BCS
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OH so glad to hear from you!
Sounds like you are doing just fine too.
See ya when you return to the oven!
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Eli
Super Nomad
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Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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So good to connect with You again Judy, I always look forward to your weather reports, for sure I don't plan to return until the oven is turned off,
expect me in Nov.......... at the earliest.
Paula, I missed you this winter. I hope to visit Josafina Aquilar before I return North, if I find any tourist with her, I will be sure and send them
home.
Iflyfish, I always appreciate your positive note, it is good to connect again after such a long time.
BajaGringo, it would be a pleasure to meet you, if you ever make it South do stop by. I too enjoy your posts. You are right, Vera Cruz inspires.....
For me right now everything in my life is green, my surroundings, my paintings, even the juice I am drinking in the moment is GREEN, a pineapple base
w/ green apple, broccoli, parsley & nopal.
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Iflyfish
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I'm working on red right now, discovered the prickely pear cactus margarita. Those things are an amazing color if you look closely. Us guys didn't get
as many crayons as you girls did, but I think the term used is magenta. Reminds me of some of the amazing cactus flowers I have seen. I used to think
that the desert was empty, I now see how rich it really is.
Since marrying Mrsfish, an artist by training, a school administrator by vocation and now a retired artist/photographer, I have become aware of all
the colors that surround us. The jungle is not green, it is a rainbow of green, yellow, blue and shades in between.
I saw the movie Vincent once and it opened my eyes to the myrid colors that one can see. He agonized to share with his brother what he was seeing. I
suspect that we are born with different numbers of rods and cones and some are blessed with more cones.
Mrsfish was trained as a sculpture and I have found that most sculpters of note are dyslexic, their brains simply have a hard time grasping the linier
perspective of the written word and so therefore struggle with reading and writing, a very two dimentional task. Makes a lot of sense when you think
about it. Different areas of the brain used for different tasks and like the rest of our anatomy, thought common to all, infinite in it's variety.
Where can I see your work?
Iflyfish
Iflyfish
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Eli
Super Nomad
Posts: 1471
Registered: 8-26-2003
Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Mood: Some times Observing, sometimes Oblivious.
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Iflyfish, Have fun in reds, reds are fun, color is as infinite as the universe.
I was never so aware of the rainbows of green (I like your term Rainbows of Green, it's a keeper),as I am right now. My art teachers always have the
same advise, half of learning to create is learning to observe. As I see it today; it is training your mind to see and than connecting what you see to
your internal vision which than transfers to your hands.
I create from two directions, sometimes I try to dictate what a painting will be and sometimes I just let the piece dictate to me what it wants to be.
I think both ways of working are valid. Art surly is a subjective subject.
Computer literate, I am NOT. I haven't yet figured out how to Link, but below is the address for my latest Picasa album of this years paintings. Also,
via this address one can access past work and photos I have taken on my way via the same site. Hopefully a cut and paste and you will be in.
http://picasaweb.google.com/SaradeLaVos/MyArt2010#
I have a small gallery in Los Barriles, if you ever make it down that way, it is open now, although part of the work has been put away for the summer
and will not be brought out again until hurricane season is over. Access will close when Calebes restaurant closes in August until October.
If I were to describe my art I would call it whimsical, innocent, primitive, sweet, humorist, iconic and sometimes just down right silly. I plan to
spend the rest of my life studying art, trying to figure out how to express my spirit. I think the most valid thing I have to say, I say with my art.
[Edited on 7-30-2010 by Eli]
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Eli
Super Nomad
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Registered: 8-26-2003
Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Weather Report from Coatepec Vera Cruz; I woke this morning to the sound of rain and I will fall asleep tonight to the sound of the rain, same as
yesterday and the day before, gentle, you can walk in it with an umbrella kind of rain. Well, what can I say, I guess it is a good thing I Love the
sound of rain.
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Ken Bondy
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Nice to hear from you Sara, hope you are well!
carpe diem!
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Sallysouth
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Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
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Mood: missing Baja...
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So good to hear your voice, feel your world.Greens, grays, rain...sweet.Glad you are happy and thriving!!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Eli
Super Nomad
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Registered: 8-26-2003
Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Sally and Ken Bondy, It has been a long time, I'm doing pretty good, it is always good to go somewhere I have never been before.
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Natalie Ann
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The sound of rain and the smell of rain... aaaaahhhhh!
Makes me smile real big to think of you, amiga, walking beneath your bumbershoot along the small town streets, drinking your green juice, enjoying the
little surprises each day brings.
Hugs from the chill no-rain but interesting streets of Berkeley...
nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Eli
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Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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All day today with no rain, but the skies stay a light gray, a bird sat out side my window and listened to Billie Holiday play. It was a very quite,
start a new painting kind of day.
I bet those streets of the big city are very interesting Nena, good to connect again, it has been a long time.
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Eli
Super Nomad
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Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Well as Y'all know, I am far, far from home. I have just spent almost 5 months in Vera Cruz, living in a rain forest. I am a fortunate soul, I have
sufficient income to live simple but very well, cushy bed and hot shower no matter where I lay my weary head. Today, I take a bus to Puebla and Wed. I
am off to Oaxaca for a few weeks and than finally home.
It will be almost a half a year since I have slept in my own bed, from where I can see the Sea of Cortez, cuddled with Mi Tio Cat and the grand-kids.
I am so ready to go home!
For this year, I have nurtured well my Nomadic needs. I love to travel alone. I find the need to go where I have never been in order to break
patterns, I fall into lethargy if I stay in one place to long. This is my first trip ever to Vera Cruz,. I found a great little Casa de Cultura with a
fantastic studio where I made friends with others who love to create. I plan to return again next summer. I still have stuff to complete here. Alas,
where ever I wind up I create patterns and stick to the routine until I move on, but I feel the patterns I created here where healthy ones, it has
been so peaceful, easy to find enlightenment when one plays a lone Monk in the Cave so to speak.
Alas, it is time now to head home, one quick detour to Oaxaca and I will be back at Galeria Los Angeles in Los Barriles to greet any Nomads who come
by way.
Hasta entonces, Sara
[Edited on 10-19-2010 by Eli]
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