Seasons Change

We are staying grounded in Guadalajara for a few weeks and it feels good. The rainy season has started, so the evenings cool considerably and the sound of rain is delightful after a 6 month hiatus. Mangoes are back in season and are cheap, delicious and plentiful. I was sighing as I whipped up a batch of guacamole with our excess of avocados, knowing that this will be a markedly more expensive venture upon return to the states.

After the influenza scare businesses are back in business and schools have re-opened after a two-week closure. People have flooded back onto the streets and many have forgone the masks. Entrepreneurs are making a killing off of selling hand sanitizer in fancy plastic bottles on street corners.

Painting classes are back in session and I am nearing completion of a third painting. I have now begun to work on a website for Kamami, as well as a site for my friend David, who is an architect.

Josh has been working hard to prepare for the Truth With A Camera workshop, which begins this Sunday. We had dinner with photographer and friend Jose Hernández Claire and his wife Nora. They were overly accommodating with tequila and lonches (sandwiches) and botanos (appetizers) as we discussed the upcoming workshop.