spanish Fork
A small project, "No Matter What Kind of Shoes..."
March 8, International Women's Day. A small idea to amplifier our voice was in my head for days, yes, it was an improvisation and yes, it come out just right !
unknown face Davina Smith kim Jones
Kevin Edgar Stacy Stanford
Marz Melahn Atkinson Ma Black
Sophie Silverstone Rachel Edwars
Lubbock, I am leaving you, loving you.
We arrived in Lubbock, Texas in August 2016. We knew that was going to be different, Lubbock is a city where people like me, have the feeling that they are alone but for not solitude see; there is Lubbock and everything else is far away... I embrace this city as best as I could and got into the adventure to go and explore and search for the beauty of landscapes, the beauty of the infinite cotton fields after all this is West Texas, is the southern end of the high plains.
I found also our happy place, me and my girls at the taste of clay class every Thursday at the Helen DeVitt Jones Clay Studio getting to know beautiful and very helpful people, like Paola, Andrew, Marilee who teach my girl to love pottery!
I loved the first Friday art walk, I really enjoyed music at the Holly Buddy Center, and most of all I just love to stroll around visiting the art galleries. My kids loved the libraries and their story time, and all the events that they organized, well done! we attend at least two of the libraries story time every week.
The city is home of the Texas Tech University, so almost every house displays something related to it. We spend long time in the soccer fields of the Texas Tech Academy, It was a great time to show some soccer mom attitude! My girls really enjoyed the summer camp with Young Dancer Workshop, Flatland Dance Theatre and the ballet at theCity of Lubbock - Parks and Recreation. Great deals for families!. I also have to mention couple of my favorite restaurants La Diosa Cellars and La Sirena, it was nice to have some time out of the kitchen for me and taste some of the Texas wine.
Lubbock can get pretty cold sometimes during winter, that was the perfect time to visit some local live music venues bars like the light blue live http://www.thebluelightlive.com/ right in the Buddy holly ave in the heart of lubbock where I had the pleasure to photograph Elli Perry and enjoyed her music. https://www.elliperry.com/
It really feels that we are celebrating our departure, enjoying Buffalo Springs Lake and the Drake Hayes country music band,( http://www.drakehayesband.com/ )the parade of the Fourth of July and the pass of the Haboob.
Time is running out, we are packing now, we are getting ready physically and emotionally to step into a new adventure in the state of Utah.
Texas, South Plain
Floydada, Quitaque, Caprockcanyon.
Memorial Day
little red river
Yes,we can. Yes, we did.
Bye Bye Mr. President
2012, rally Orlando Fl
President Obama
My mother, Eulalia, at the rally.
The honor to see Mr. president and photograph him.
No many farm workers in the cotton harvesting. Machinery is what pick the cotton. Lubbock, TX
Cotton Harverting
Compressed block of harvested cotton. Lubbock, TX
Lubbock, Texas
It's been quiet here, we are currently in Lubbock, Texas. Town of large agriculture fields and home of the Texas Tech University. The cotton is being harvested now, fall season is just about, nice weather and a lot of excitement to get to know the surroundings.
Halve harvest cotton plants
Robert Bruno's steel house, Ramson Canyon, TX
Part II. Beautiful Country.
Moab, Utah
Monument Valley, Utah
Monument Valley, Utah
Navajo Dream Catcher
White Sands, New Mexico
Cold Country Part I
Spring is here and yet I am still missing the beauty of the PNW winter. I am enamored of the landscape and the romantic scenery that this country offers. Here are some photos from Washington, Yellowstone Wyoming, Montana and Utah.
Outskirt of Yakima Valley
Early Morning leaving the state of Washington.
Yellow Stone WY
Yellow Stone
Bison, Yellow Stone.
Fox, Yellowstone
Snow storm WY
After the snow storm
Winter over YellowStone river
Open field for a flock of bison.
Yellow Stone
Gardiner Mountain Montana
Utah
Utah where the white started fading... Don't miss the next post.
And with the snow the winter pruning starts, the beauty of Yakima Valley means a hard time for farm workers.
Team work apple pruning. Alberto teaching how to prune.
Pear fields Yakima Valley
Some coffee to share
Some of my favorites Yakima Fall colors
Amazing warm color in Yakima, WA.
For a change, here is some of the places we saw in our Road Trip. Landscape is not the kind of photography that I do often but I really enjoyed capturing what our mother Earth brings us every day.
scenic view on road 89 California
Sedona AZ
Grand Canyon
Valley of Fire NV
Valley of Fire NV
Valley of Fire NV
Valley of Fire, NV
Evergreen, Flagstaff AZ
Native america from Wapato WA
From the Wapato Harvest festival,Native american girls getting ready for a dance presentation.
Mothers getting the costumes ready
Hops Harvest
From the Unknown Faces project. The hops are being harvested, this will the end of the female work in the fields of the hops. Maria is one of the top cutter that makes sure the vines are place in the truck all the way through the whole cut.
Maria
Talking around in the Yakima fields with the workers, I learned this: Fruit this year could be very expensive. Last winter Yakima Valley did not get enough snow. Snow is primordial for the trees to produce the fruit.
The trees, the workers said, aren't full of fruit like the other years. This is going to reflect in the prices in the market. Right now is affecting the field workers, the fruit is small, it will take a long time to fill the cases, and they are pay by case.
The prices by case is about 23 or 27 dollar, depending of the field and companies, women are barely filling two cases a day. They started their day at 6:00 am and finishing at 2:30.
Pow Wow
Alone we shout into the wind. Together we became the wind.
From Leo Aether Album Cover "Laberintos" 2013
Thanks Leo.