While I was in Mexico - I paid to have a private tour to Chichen Itza. It was money well spent. Not only was I able to get to the ruins before the crowds, or before the sun got too strong..we made a stop in this small town and watched the women in the town make corn tortillas at to tortilla factory. I was told they were preparing their lunch for that day.
When the tortilla's were finished I tasted one with ground pepper and fresh lime.
Take a gander..
Lots to blog about....in the meantime here is a photo I took in Mexico.
I saw this on my way to work this morning. I wonder how much money it is? I gotta be frank, if I found $20 heck if I found a $100 I would put it in my pocket and sing "Cha Ching".
This photo was recently included in a gallery on Flickr featuring Greenwood Cemetery. I took one cold day in April nearly six years ago when I was just starting to play around in photography. I had completely forgotten about it. No fancy camera here..just a regular point and shoot.
A few months ago I got an email from Johnathan Harris. He saw one of my photos from my 365 The Breast Cancer Edition. It was a photo I took of myself after my third chemo treatment. It is not one of my favorite photos. It's kind of blurry actually. They asked my permission to publish the photo in their book and I agreed.
We Feel Fine is an art project in where they are tracking human emotions that are posted somewhere in social media, like MySpace or Flickr (where they found mine). It looks for the phrase "I feel..." and record their feeling and their basic location. When I posted this photo I wrote " I seem to have two to three days of feeling yucky on the chemo. "
The book comes out in December.
I took this photo in September of 2007. It was the last day that the Astroland Tower was open. I made sure I got a ride because I thought it would be the last chance to take a photo of Coney Island from this viewpoint.
I spoke to a woman a few days ago who had no idea I had breast cancer. She was telling me about some lumps she's had checked every six months for the last few years, and how stressful it's been. I told her that I knew what she was talking about. REALLY knew, and then told her my story. How I had breast cancer, and went through chemo, radiation, and a double mastectomy with a tram flap reconstruction. She was shocked to say the least. She has only known me for a few months. She had no idea. (she also kept looking at my boobs. They always do.)
She of course had a bunch of questions for me. I didn't know what to say. My views on breast cancer are so skewed. I didn't want to terrify her. That yes, most likely her lumps are benign, she has been watching them for years, they haven't grown. But the truth is they can't tell weather a tumor is malignant by looking at a sonogram, that I have known women who believed their doctors when they were told this. These women are dead now.
I have restored the breast cancer posts. I'm not keeping quiet anymore.
Took some more pics on my afternoon walk today.
Hats
Fabric
Boobs
Here are some photos I took on my lunch "fifteen minutes". There are some interesting areas around my office to take pictures. This winter has been bitter cold, and I've been very busy. Co-worker Galina does a lot of lunch time photo trips.
BTW the pizza parlor on the corner, that used to have the $150 $1.50 pizza and a soda deal, closed in the new year. It's now a T-Mobile store. Like we need more of those.
Pork Shop 9th Avenue, NYC ....
Woman model plastic thingy garment district NYC.
I haven't posted a pic of myself lately so here is one. I know I'm scowling. I always do when I'm taking a self portrait for some reason. You can't really tell how curly my hair is because I think I was actually combing it straight here. You can see the curls on the end. This was taken on the Coney Island Board Walk.
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