Food Craving Wednesday

Resuscitating this series of Food Craving. On my last vacation in October/November, I made sure that I have chocolate con churros in Barcelona. Otherwise, the Barcelona experience wouldn't be complete.

Can I show you some pictures?

Really, may I? I have been lost for words lately and no inspiration pops in my brain lately. It must have been due to all the headaches I've been having lately, may be I'm developing migraine. I don't want to talk about headaches here now.

These pictures however relieves stress, cures headaches, and inspires me to look forward to some travel.

Random

Life at random captured forever.

Street Photography #18

I haven't posted a Street Photography series since Sept 2012, nearly a year ago. How did that happen? So to remedy that here's one night shot from a trip to New Orleans in November 2012.

Daily February: Days 21 & 22

I got distracted again and forgot to post yesterday. I really don't have anything to say so I'll just post pictures. Here are some of my favorite people watching photos.









Well, happy weekend.

Day 15 (30 days of June)

One of the many bonuses of travelling is meeting wonderful people like them.

Day 13 (30 days of June)

For today, I'd like to show you pictures of what make me happy:


Trees, the giant redwood trees, and walking under them.


Shopping at made-up stalls on the sidewalk with my gal pals.


Beautiful skies.


Popcorn and movies on tv.


Having a quiet time with my hubby.

Day 7 (30 days of June)

I love this pattern. Can you guess what this is? It's a blanket. I bought one in 2008. I don't exactly remember if this was the same design that I bought. The blanket is sitting in my linen closet, unopened, unused. I don't dare use it for everyday. I don't even think I'd be using it for it's purpose. We bought it so we can hang it on our wall, like a tapestry. We have a floor to ceiling walls, high ceilings too.

This is one of the reasons why I'm excited about going back to Bangladesh. The shopping for fabrics at the bazaar is simply enjoyable.

Street Photography #14

P1010826, originally uploaded by M'roy.

Art Deco District. Miami Beach, Florida.

Street Photography #8:

I really hope I could go back here (Valladolid, Mexico) and stay for at least one night.

Street Photography # 6

I almost forgot that I had a series going on Street Photography. This one comes from Barcelona.

Is it Friday yet?

Untitled

I have a secret to tell. I love alleys and narrow streets. They make me happy. They are some of my favorite photo subjects.

But a day or so ago as I was inspecting what's on my flickr account that I could use for blogging in the future, I came upon this one that was taken almost a year ago today from my visit to Rabat in Malta.

It's a narrow street, the one we took to go to St. Paul's Church.

It isn't the first time I've seen this or reviewed this. Part of my unwinding at the end of the day is to go over my shots/albums and see what inspiration I can get for my blogs - I have three going at the same time so I need a lot of inspiration.

Always the photos make me happy.

But this time around, this particular image pinched my heart.

You see I have been experiencing some torpor in my life. I can't figure out why and what is the cause.

It can't be the season. Heck, it's autumn, and while my neighborhood isn't awash in vivid yellows, reds, and browns, it has the fall atmosphere. For those who wants to know, we have greens everywhere still with a hint of the season that is here. We always get our leaves changing colors later than the North or even the East. Last year we had lovely fall colors on Christmas day - yap that's how late we sometimes get our colors.

It can't be the season when the Giants, our hometown baseball team, is in the World Series. There is too much excitement and happy energy going around town and people are just happy around here.

Still I felt a little melancholic at seeing this image.

Then today I realized what I needed, what was missing. The root of my lethargy dawned upon me as I was taking my walk around the corridors - an activity I do to stretch my legs and keep me away from my computer screen.

The image conveyed some sense of sadness because my body was craving for an adventure. A little vacation. My camera needed some clicking action.

I need to breathe a different kind of air - hopefully something brisky cold - and my eyes needed to see a little color other than blue (sky) and green (pines and firs).

I need a vacation. A short one, for now.

Hawaii was in the cards in the summer time, but Cancun came in at the last minute and because value wise the latter trumped the former, Cancun we went.

Six days five nights - it got us through the rest of the third quarter.

I need another one.

We have initially penciled in a Hawaii (again) vacay in December just before all the cooking and gift-wrapping and tree-trimming, but my sensible self didn't think that our pocket book can suffer that much damage so close to the Holidays and with all the travel plans we already have for the next year.

So we scrapped the Hawaii island visit. It was difficult but it was the right move.

Now I am scouring the net for deals somewhere close to go to for an overnight stay, just to get away.

I need my mojo back!

Street Photography

No reason for this post other than I thought I'd begin a photographic series here - once a week or something.

Street Shot. NYC. April 2009

Very Frustrated

EGPT_0022, originally uploaded by M'roy.

I store my photos at Flickr. They revamped their page. And with this "new" layout comes new bugs or frustrations. My case is that I cannot use the link to my photos so I can blog them. Oh my, oh my. This just ruined my day. Hope the day will change gear later today after I read all the new FAQ on the new page of Flickr.