Antigua Street Colors: Shades of Blue
I have always believe that the exterior wall of the former Casa de la Moneda, Minting House, is fabulous backdrop for my …
Typical colors of Antigua Guatemala: Blue and Yellow
After our Holy Week coverage, we are back to our normal Antigua Guatemala photography feed. I hope you enjoy this touch of …
Yellow and Blue from Antigua Guatemala
The most common color combination we can make in Antigua Guatemala is blue and yellow since there’s a blue sky everywhere and …
Color Palette: Blue
It’s been a while since I updated the color palette category and since there are so many house now with new paint …
We all live in a yellow house
We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house …
Still in a blue mood
Lately blue has come my way. First time it came as blue house with blue doors and a blue sky. Now, it …
Feeling blue
Yet I am not sad. How about you? Tags: Antigua Daily Photo / Antigua / Guatemala / blue house
Follow Up to Façade Facelift
Since I showed you, just the other day, how the façade of house from La Antigua Guatemala was being repaired and painted …
Starbucks Coffee Finally Opened in Antigua Guatemala
After so many years, probably decades, Starbucks Coffee was able to open their first coffee house in Antigua Guatemala; it is the …
It’s Refacción Time!
The Guatemalan labor code allows for two short breaks of about 15 minutes (in addition to the lunch break); one in the …
Antigua Guatemala Colors of the Dry Season
One of the constant color of the dry season in Antigua Guatemala is the sky blue. If you pair the sky blue with the rich tones of the yellow and orange houses and buildings found everywhere in Antigua Guatemala you get a picture like the one shown above. Enjoy!
Enjoy the Radiant Tumbergias Vines
As I have shared with you before, these vibrant yellow or maroon spotted with yellow strange-looking flowers are the gift of a …
Things Will Get Better
Things will get better, stay safe, stay strong, stay tele-connected with loved ones and stay actively creative. Take advantage of all the …
Winter is coming!
This is what the Winter season looks like in Antigua Guatemala. Temperate weather, somewhere between 60ºF and 75ºF, clear blue skies, lots …
Antigua Color Palette: Rojo Concepción or Rojo Santo Domingo?
In case you were wondering why the color of the houses repeat so often in La Antigua Guatemala, well, here’s the answer. …
Window Gardens
In other places of the world, windows are just windows. In La Antigua Guatemala windows are shop displays, gardens, pet spots, plant …
The Morning the Romans Arrived in La Antigua
At 3:30 in the morning and by the light of the full moon as the rooster crowed a couple times, my husband …
The War of the Worlds
Play this song before continuing: We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched …
Casa Antigüeña: The Balconies
What better photo to wave goodbye to the Casa Antigüeña series than an image of the balconies against cloud-free deep blue sky, …
Little gray boxes on the hillside, Little gray boxes made of ticky-tacky
Anyhow, what’s got Little boxes to do with today’s entry. Well, once you listen to Little boxes or Las Casitas del Barrio Alto, you’d know it is impossible to get them out of your head. In a recent trip to México over the weekend we took the new road Carretera 14 to reach the highway that takes us to Southeast México. Carretera 14 is part of the road which will circumvent La Antigua Guatemala and some of the villages. In other words, Carretera 14 is the backbone for what will be the periférico around La Antigua Guatemala. Carretera 14 is also one the most beautiful stretches of road in Guatemala.
Here Was Born Luis Cardoza y Aragón
And in front of the door that I hadn’t crossed in so many years, I remembered the small key, short and round, …
Electrified Barb Wire
This shot could be anywhere in the world, except for the fact of the blue in the sky can only be Guatemala; …