Maize Cane Fence
Not all the walls in La Antigua Guatemala are made from stones, bricks or pumice blocks, some are actually made from organic …
Live green fences
Twice before I have mentioned that fences are alive around Antigua. Here you can see two coffee plantation, one each side of …
Inauguration of Parque Central Facelift
After months of work repairing benches, replacing garden areas with new plants and flowers and fences, installing new water pumps and adding …
New Look of Parque Central
The new garden areas, plants, flowers and fences of Parque Central, the main square, of Antigua Guatemala have given the central park …
Consecutive Day 3632 of 3654 — Parque Central Facelift
This week Parque Central has been going through a facelift. New fences, new benches, new trash cans, new garden areas. This is …
Black and white of the Izote tree or yucca guatemalensis
The izote tree, yucca guatemalensis, is the Mesoamerican cousin of the yucca tree or Joshua tree and one of my favorite plants …
Palo de izote close up in Black and White
As I have said before, Palo de Izote is the Mesoamerican cousin of the yucca tree or Joshua tree and one of …
Recicladora Antigua – Reduce Reutiliza Recicla
There are many recycling approaches that people use in Guatemala. Interesting enough, at first glance it may seem that there are NO …
Palo de Izote fragment
Palo de Izote is the Mesoamerican cousin of the yucca tree or Joshua tree and one of my favorite photographic subjects. Just …
Recycling Around Antigua Guatemala
Often I have shared with you the different recycling programs available around Antigua Guatemala. There are many recycling approaches that people use …
Typical Wall Garden from Antigua Guatemala
Often the perimeter walls for residential homes have carefully guided bougainvillea trees flowering all year long along to the top. In a …
Unmounting the Christ Figure from the Cross
At the end of the mass service for the Feast of Out Lady of Guadalupe while I was trying to get out …
Local Bottled Water Station Hunapu
In Guatemala exists a near monopoly of bottled water called Salvavidas; surely you remember the photo of the pile 5-gallon jugs known …
The Coffee Colors
The other day we heard many voices on the other side of the fence; voices of children and women just talking and laughing. We approached the windows on the second floor to see what was all the commotion; then we saw men, women and children harvesting the coffee. At this moment, you can see the turning point of coffee from green to golden yellow and finally cherry red.
Guateflora: Chichicaste Hedge
Poison Ivy is without a doubt the most famous ivy in the family; especially after Drew Barrymore gave it human traits. I am not sure if we have poison ivy in Guatemala since I am not familiar with the plant. But, we have our own poisonous plant: Chichicaste. The scientific name is Chichicaste grandis and it belongs to the Loasaceae family, but here we just call it chichicaste. The chichicaste plant is used often in hedgerows and if you have followed this blog for a while, you will know that this is not the first time the chichicaste has entered the viewfinder. I know of two kinds of chichicaste, the regular kind and chichicaste de caballo (horse’s chichicaste), which has a leaf about three times the size of normal chichicaste.
Coffee and Gravileas Trees Along with Bougainvillea Bushes
This photo is needed to clarify a confusion about the coffee trees and their height. Nathalie from Sydney DP asked if coffee trees grow very tall in La Antigua Guatemala, while referring to this photograph which showed coffee trees and their shadow makers the gravilea trees around Antigua, San Pedro Las Huertas to be precise. I posted a Close-up photo of coffee plantation before to show the coffee bushes (tree could be considered an exaggeration) and the shadow trees known here a gravileas. So, to answer Nathalie’s questions, coffee trees (ed. bushes) do not grow very high; they can be harvest by Guatemalan farm workers on foot.
Inside the Safety Zone
Ever since I took a snapshot of a Electrified barb wire fence I wanted to come back to the subject to get …
Close-up at a coffee plantation
Coffee trees do not grow very tall and that is why they are easy to harvest. Here you see coffee trees which …
Transnational: Send Money Worldwide
The money movers of the world are everywhere and yet they are invisible, very much like the undocumented worker who feeds it. …
Back door for San Jeronimo ruins
Ruins are everywhere in Antigua. Heck you could even say the whole town is a ruin or a post card from the …
Palo de Izote tree
Palo de Izote is a relative of the Yucca Tree. It is present in almost all gardens and fences here and everywhere …