Holy Week Details: Pine Needles and Flowers Carpet
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Alfombras procesionales for processional carpets. Once again I’ll be offering group and private …
Poinsettias Flowers: A Gift from Guatemala to the World
Poinsettias are autochthonous to Guatemala and Mesoamerica so they can be grown in gardens either by design or as wild intruders as well as in the fields as wild plants. In Guatemala poinsettias are known as Flor de Pascua, or simply as…
Mermaids Fountain Adorned with Sunflowers
Often the Fuente de Las Sirenas, mermaids fountain, is decorated with flowers. Today I share with you one such vista where the …
Enjoy Craft Beers and Sunflowers in Antigua
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Cerveza Artesanal for craft beer. The cervecerías artesanales, craft breweries, movement went to …
Antigua Guatemala Has Sunshine and Vibrant Flowers All Year Long
No wonder people from really cold latitudes love to hibernate in Antigua Guatemala during the harsh winter months. Imagine having gorgeous warm …
Fountain Decorated with Gerbera Flowers During the Festival de Flores of Antigua Guatemala
As I have mentioned before, it is common practice in and around Antigua Guatemala to decorate windows, entryways, façade and fountains with …
Crowded Flowers Stands the Day before All Saints Day
Every year October 31st is the best day for flowers vendors as the sales skyrocket for the entire week as everyone is …
Guateflora — Yellow shrimp flowers from Antigua Guatemala
We continue our close-up look at the flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with camarón amarillo, as we know the …
Enjoy the Sunshine and Flowers of Antigua Guatemala
Even though we are under quarantine and lockdown national mandates, we still get a chance to enjoy the sunshine and flowers found …
Fountains Decorated with Flowers in Antigua Guatemala
It is common practice in and around La Antigua Guatemala to decorate fountains with flowers, especially during the Flower Festival of Antigua …
Day of the Dead vistas from Guatemala — Mayan kids, kites and flowers
This year as part of my Day of the Dead Photography Workshop I carried an instant camera/printer so I can give prints …
Cempasuchil are the Flowers of the Dead
These particular marigold flowers are known as cempasuchil in Mexico or simply as flor de muerto, flowers for the dead, in Guatemala …
Exotic Flowers Are Us
We are so fortunate in Antigua Guatemala to have affordable exotic flowers all year long; so we often encounter decorative striking flower …
Quotidian Vistas of Antigua Guatemala — Pour over walls plants and flowers
It’s been a while since our last post on the Guateflora series. Our daily life vista is framed by the plant called …
Flowers bloom all year long in Antigua Guatemala
Who can help naming these light blue flowers?
Quotidian Vistas from Antigua Guatemala — Windows with Flowers
By the way, I just read this coming week will be one of the coldest in decades in the U.S. and Canada and here now we walk around like it were Summer. So, I wonder what are you still suffering, come on down to enjoy our warm Winter season…
For Ever-present Flowers and Smiles Come to Guatemala
So, how are you enduring this harsh Winter season thus far? Don’t suffer any longer, pack your bags and come and enjoy the smiles and flowers available even now in Guatemala.
Antigua Guatemala’s Façade Adorned with Flowers
Bakeries really put in the effort to create beautiful flower embellishments for the façades of their businesses. Here’s flower decoration found at …
Antigua Guatemala’s Façade Embellished with Flowers
This decorated façade was awarded the third position on the contest organized by the 2nd Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala. Once again, …
Antigua Guatemala’s Façade Decorated with Flowers
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Fachada for façade. The flower decoration of façades in Antigua Guatemala was one of …
Guateflora — White shrimp flowers from Antigua Guatemala
Two small updates from Antigua Guatemala. I can’t believe that I hadn’t shared with you the flowers known here as camarones blancos, …
Flowers and antique stoves as decoration in Antigua Guatemala
Once again I am sharing exotic flowers and an antique stove as part of this week mini series of beautiful spots in …
Exotic Flowers at a Niche in Antigua Guatemala
We continue this week mini series of beautiful spots in Antigua Guatemala with niche which always has exotic flowers on display. Interesting …
Flowers are everywhere in La Antigua Guatemala
Thanks to the First Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala we now have flowers everywhere in Antigua Guatemala. What a wonderful initiative and …
Squash Flowers at the Mercado in Antigua Guatemala
Squash is available all year long as ayote, güicoy or even chilacayote, all members of the squash and pumpkin family. Squashes are …
Fresh flowers home delivery in Antigua Guatemala
Fresh flowers home delivery is not a new concept in Guatemala, I believe it has existed since colonial times. Here we can …
Light and flowers at the mercado
If you go to el mercado on “market days” you can get an ever larger selection of flowers at lower prices than …
Yellow Flowers at el mercado, Antigua Guatemala
Plastic fake flowers, we don’t know what they are and we don’t need them. We are the land of the eternal Spring …
Day of the Dead: Crown of Flowers
If you visit the mercados, markets, in Guatemala you will the the busy flower shops creating these flower crowns for Día de …
Real Guatemala: Milpa Fields with Flowers and Squash
So far in these milpa fields I have found beans, squash, red onions, fruit trees, and flowers. However, as explained before, in …