Oaxaca Friends and Street Art

It has been such a delight to be with friends here.  Bob and RoseAnna were here and they introduced us to new friends, Clark and Carolyn.  We hope they will become Oaxacaphiles and we will see them here in future years!  Our apartment neighbors and friends, Rick and Joy, have been good company and they are regulars, so we know we can count on future conversations,  stories of adventures, Oaxaca tips and margaritas with mezcal.

There is street art everywhere: murals, music, sculpture, flowering plants, even carved tree trunks.  The strong, beautiful women I see, mostly street vendors, are also for me a form of art.

 

 House wrens keep us company all day.  They flit back and forth outside our apartment, always busy, social, with complicated songs and chatter.  There is also a northern pygmy owl in the laurel tree nearby which keeps us up at night with its incessant call.  We have seen hummingbirds, warblers,  mockingbirds and the Great Kisskadee, among others.  I hear other songs I can't identify.

We've both enjoyed cooking more this year, making dishes with our favorite chili, pasilla oaxacanea.