Distractions and Procrastinations

We are counting down the days until our 2 week break.  Eric's dad arrives this Friday and my parents will be here next Monday.  We have 3 1/2 days left of school, and I will admit I have quite a few papers to grade and a test to write.  But it's just so hard to stay focused; Linnea and I went to a b-day party today, there is an art opening tomorrow night (with wine AND cheese!  Can you believe it!?),  a concert on Wednesday night, and the list goes on of all the distractions and fun festivities.  So you can see, it's not so fun to grade papers.

So I thought I'd add another distraction to the list and mess around on the computer and put together a compilation of pictures that we've taken over the last few months.  Some are mundane, some ugly, some funny, some down right beautiful.

I hope you enjoy them.

This is a shacky, shanty town just outside the city.   These houses are about half way up the mountain.  To me, it's about the most beautiful mountain in the city.  It's not far from our school and I admire it every day.

One Saturday, it rained buckets and flooded a lot of city streets.

This tangle of power lines was funny, but even more funny was the mangled mess that lay in the street.  If we hadn't been in a bus, We'd have gotten a picture of that too.

This was taken from our balcony.  The construction workers treat the street like it's their job site.  The gray splotches on the street are where construction workers mixed the concrete while working on the house.  Not far from our house, there is a "concrete sculpture" where someone mixed concrete on a busy street, then left the pile there and a car drove through it and then it hardened.

Saturday morning stroll.

Ominous bird on a church in Ojojona.

Dahlia's, just the like ones that grow in our garden in Sebastopol.

A beautiful vivero (nursery) with the jungle in the background.