slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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We began Saturday with a slow walk uphill on this street. So many shops and galleries were open now. One of the shops we visited was a print shop with many fine relief prints and artist books for sale. We talked to the employee there and her brother for a long time, and I laid…
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Well, as you probably know, I try to keep this a politics free space most of the time, for my own sanity’s sake. BUT YAY! And this was too funny not to share, and I still love Bernie. Anyway, I am still working on the Mexico posts. I have most of them written and I’m…
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Finally, the streets came alive for the weekend. Suddenly there were lots of doors opened into sweet little shops and cafes. We began to get more familiar with our surroundings. I loved taking photos of doors. I may have to weave some doors soon, and I’ll do a post with only door photos. We walked…
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We decided to begin using Uber rides to get uphill to the center of town and walking back down to the hotel. This worked really well in Mexico, as compared to our Uber tribulations in Portugal last year. We never had a problem. First we found lunch at a pretty little courtyard cafe named Marluz.…
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On Wednesday, we began by exploring the nearest streets. This ended up being a real foodie vacation. Our first stop was at the little coffee shop on the corner, and then we found lunch at Cafe Jess. After talking to the young woman we thought was a waitress for a while, we discovered that she…
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I’m doing a catch-up post about the tapestry design workshop and Tapestry Weavers South retreat that I attended the first week in June. MJ Lord taught the workshop, “Birds, Bugs, and Butterflies,” based on her colorful abstract design work based on nature. It was the perfect workshop for me since I’ve really been into birds…
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^This is the beautiful Templo de la Merced that we could see from the roof of our hotel. I wish that we had gone in when we heard the mass on Sunday as we walked by, because from the photos I’ve seen, the interior is gorgeous. I started to crop the electric lines from the…
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^I think there is a garden behind these doors. We would find that there were often beautiful surprises within plain outside facades. The sign translates to “The Snails” but I don’t know what C.S.O.A means. I knew that there would not be much open on Monday, so I ordered breakfast at our hotel, which our…
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First off, it’s pronounced kay-REE-tah-roh. I had to practice this a lot after weeks of saying qwair-ee-TAH-roh. It’s a big modern city with a Spanish colonial heart that is a UNESCO World Heritage site. We flew there on Saturday, May 6. I found a flight that our miles mostly covered that got us there in…
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I really am working on the Mexico travel posts. I’m almost ready to post the ones from Querétaro. I wrote a lot of it when I was in the throes of a very bad mood so I need to edit that and add the photos I’ve edited and uploaded. I’ve vented a lot of this…
slowly she turned 