Holidays, Events & Celebrations
Moriarty Pinto Bean Festival Local Color
Moriarty is a small town thirty minutes east of Albuquerque on Route 66. Annually, the city hosts a Pinto Bean Festival to honor the lowly pinto bean and those rural folk that live in this area in manufactured homes on subdivided one acre plots that get...
Fourth of July Celebration at Richard and Maria's
The fourth of July is the official birthday of the United States. The American fight for Independence was hatched in Boston pubs and undertaken by a cadre of locals. Over taxed and under represented was the big beef and secretive plotting led to a...
Northern Arizona University Graduation – 2015 Ready for real life
The N.A.U. auditorium is filled with parents, friends, graduates, speakers, security, and interested observers. The event is graduation for the 2015 class of NAU Lumberjacks who have spent their last several years sharpening axes, learning to identify...
Pickleball Classic Back at Happy Trails Resort
A cool morning in Surprise, Arizona, you can hear paddles striking balls several streets away from the Happy Trails pickle ball courts. "There are 15,000 pickle ball players in this area," a woman educates me as she sells new pickle ball paddles...
Marina Norte Cheap Mexican home on the water
There are several marinas in Mazatlan. The northern marina tends towards pleasure while the southern marina gravitates towards work. This Sunday the only event that draws skippers off their boats are NFL playoffs on high def TVs in bars and...
California Shopping Mall Ontario, California
The shopping mall is not only a metaphor for the Christmas season, but a melody. Jingle bells ring from inside closed stores as a security pickup patrols and deliveries are made to the back door. Stores open at ten in the morning and stay open till ten...
Fabini Plaza Xmas is nearing
On a Montevideo city bus headed back to Ciudad Vieja, Christmas decorations catch my eye. I take a detour off the city bus to enjoy them closer. This Plaza is not far from Independence Plaza. Today, there are spectators lounging on park benches, not in...
Santa Everyone knows Santa
On vacation, where it is warm and people lay on the beach, you forget about Christmas. Christmas comes in December no matter where you are in the world. In this Punta Del Este shopping mall, Christmas has arrived, decorations are out, Santa has been...
Race Cars in Punta Del Este Formula E road race
The noise draws you. With stands visible, and walls keeping people out, this spectacle is a city road race. There are cameras and cameramen strategically placed and, in retrospect, the best way to see the race is to see it on television. Despite...
Car Accident on the Rambla/Montevideo Everyone was okay
There are car wrecks every minute, somewhere in the world. This is the first one that almost hits me. Taking a walk down the Rambla, this accident happens on the roadway at a spot I just passed. I hear braking,turn, and watch a white delivery van moving...
Weddings With No Bells They just keep coming out
On Sarandi Street are groups of people, dressed to the nines, standing in my way as I pass on a sidewalk past a woman's fashion store, Happy couples exit a bland doorway, into the sunlight. They are jubilant. When more smiling couples come out and take...
The Violin Player Art show in Urban Heritage offices
The Urban Heritage group are Old City real estate developers. Jesper and his wife Olenka, partners in the Group,host an art exposition on the evening of November 7th, 2014 to promote their vision for the area to investors and business people and lovers...
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