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ceibo trees, Cruzita Ecuador, Ecuador, portoviejo ecuador, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge, weekly photo challenge fleeting moments
Typical fleeting moment while travelling between Charapoto and Cruzita Ecuador.
(ECUADOR) Yesterday I journeyed from Cruzita to Portoviejo for a final visit to the museum before next week’s opening reception of The Mola Series. Armed with WordPress’s newest photo challenge, I stepped onto the bus with anticipation of the many fleeting moments that were about cross my visual path. With camera in hand, I was ready to capture the photo opportunities that raced past my window!
Typical landscape – Cruzita to Cruz Verde
Did you know that some of the best chocolates in the word begin with Ecuador’s cacao?
The fertile floodplain in the area assures an abundance of fruits and vegetables.
Located on the Pacific coast, this area’s seafood is plentiful and inexpensive! This corner restaurant caught my eye as the bus breezed through town!
Plantains, plantains, and more plantains! This fleeting moment is so very typical of coastal Ecuador.
These two icons seemed incongruent as the bus raced to the terminal. (Perhaps the angel will protect us from consumerism?)
Transfer from bus to taxi to the Banco Central Museum. Egads! Traffic!
Ah, a walk around the block takes one to a quieter alternative to the central park traffic!
Fleeting moments are everywhere – and the unique vehicle quickly steals the show!
(This one’s for you, Ron Miller!)
“Why it takes Lisa half an hour to walk one block!” – Photo ops are everywhere!
“Hey! Why are you photographing that house when you could be photographing us?” (This happens a lot!)
The bus ride back to Cruzita offers more fleeting moments. I love the burros!
Oh, the fleeting moments ones glimpses while riding a bus!
Pardon me, senora, but those melons captured my attention!
…and that hammock moment – perhaps I can catch that as well! –
The bus zips past typical campo scenes that pull me into the setting.
Simplify, simplify, simplify! –
A fleeting glimpse of this house is always too short!
Surely a happy person lives here?!
For every photo that captured the ‘drive-by’ glimpses, I missed several more. This one hit the jackpot, to my young seat-mate’s delight!
I’ve yet to capture (well) this hammock/moto intersection to Charapoto.
One of the last standing ceibo trees in this field was recently felled. My heart now saddens when I remember the grand tree.
It was my favorite tree.
(Photo from last week) – Why, oh why?
A pastoral field of green onions
Back in Cruzita, the bus slows for the final leg of the journey.
I jump off the bus as it slows for the final turn…
… The bus careens away! “Goodbye bus!”…(my camera has a cataract!)
Weary, I note the fleeting moments as I return to my hostal.
Though tired, I pause for one more image of an afternoon icon who watches over his family of fishermen.
Hostal Cruzita; image taken last week.
Although my trip to the museum and back was a fast one, many fleeting moments caught this artist’s eyes that rarely rest!
Thanks, WordPress! This has been fun! Z
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Again..wonderful photos. We miss way too many photo fleeting moments because our camera has been left at home…though we do capture them with our eyes. Definitely getting a “smaller” camera for myself. If you don’t mind me asking, what model do you use? It looked small enough to be taken anywhere/ everywhere.
When you have a chance, please send info of upcoming show. The show in Manta just whetted our appitite for more “Lisa”. Never will tire of viewing your art work, whether it’s painting or photography.
On another note , we know a Ron Miller…It would really be a small world if it was the same man.
Take care dear friend
SIi! I understand; even with camera in hand, I miss many fleeting moments! I use a Panasonic Lumix, which has a Leica lens – so important when photographing art to keep the edges from distorting. My four-year old camera now has a cataract, and I’m doubtful there’s anyone in the area capable of repairing it. I try to ‘shoot around’ the splotch when possible. The camera has been through rugged field trials, including the evening when the olive ridley turtle hurled sand in my face (and in the camera’s! The photo was worth it!, as I was on my stomach at ground level with the turtle!)
Ron and Mimi Miller gave me a crash course in historic preservation when our paths crossed in Natchez, MS. Ron is not only enthusiastic about old structures, he is also a great teacher whose enthusiasm is infectious to those who are near! Many times he is looking over my shoulder when I admire the vanishing architecture of the colonial times.
He made a beautiful comment about this past week’s Image of Life post.
https://playamart.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/weekly-image-of-life-breathtaking/
I had planned to go ‘home’ this weekend, as the fence project has gone on in my absence. My body trumped that plan, and I am resting from two many months of ‘full-throttle’ mode. The next week’s another busy one, so I am being a good girl and staying put today! Z
Relax and great peace came to me with your story and the wonderful photographs, a quiet place where time is stopped, that’s good for the soul.
Thanks for sharing.
Adiós… 🙂
Carlos
Thanks, as always, dear Carlos! You surely fine peace and happiness wherever you are! Z
Fabulous post with such wonderful fleeting moments.
Thanks, Angeline! A bus trip through Latin America is always a visual fiesta! Z
Great photos for this week’s theme!
Thanks! Your fleeting moment is great as well! I’d double check my vision if an elephant suddenly appeared in my field of view! Z
Thanks!
Fantastic photos! I did not know that some of the best chocolates in the word begin with Ecuador’s cacao, :).
oh yes! thanks for reading all of my posts!!!! 🙂
Wonderful series of photos.
Muchas gracias! The challenge made my bus ride much more interesting! Z
Vibrant and rich fleeting moments. Just beautiful with real life stories to tell. Love the sea side village. Reminds us of what is important in this world. Thanks for sharing such a priceless post.
thank you as well. i’ve just discovered a lot of ‘unread’ notifications in that same-named folder. some i am sure that i replied, but they obviously took a trip to pluto instead! z
Loved the photos and stories behind them. Phew- I’m exhausted now!
ha! i’m glad you were able to endure! lo siento, i just found this with a lot of others hiding in the ‘unread’ notification folder. z
My dog’s anxious for his walk but I’m so glad I took an extra moment to look at this post. Beautiful. Thanks for taking us on a bus ride with you.
I’m so glad you took that ride as well! Hopefully your dog quickly forgave you! Muchas gracias! Z
The dog forgave me but it was much too hot for him poor lad so perhaps I should’ve spent more time enjoying the pix of your bus ride.