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Mindo Ecuador, painting signs for trails, property for sale ecuador, Timeout for Art, trail signs
Why is Barb chuckling as she sits on the bench?
(Rio Cinto/Mindo Ecuador) As Barbara’s “work visit” comes to an end, we’re reflecting on how much we packed into this past month. She can now add sign painting, wildlife guide and landscape design to her resume!
Thanks to a guide’s visit to the property, Barb has been officially infected with the birding bug!
Join us for a walk along the pond to critique the signs! If we’re lucky (and quiet) we might spot an otter! Adding Whimsy to the Trails
Lisa & Barb
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Ain’t complaining, but i don’t see you often enough, and i miss you so much! Lovely photos on Barb’s site.
Thanks so much! Last week when we drove to town, the internet wasn’t working at the restaurant, so we hit a ‘dud’ for connecting to the internet!
With your eye, you’d be taking some stunning photos of the birds and wildlife at the Cinto property. Several people are intersted, so maybe the new owners will enjoy the signs!
How can they not? Signs are delightful eye-candy. Are you in Mindo a lot lately, Z?
I wish that I could be there!
Looks like you both had a fun time ! Hugs
You will miss Barb. New owners? The Mindo property has sold?
I’m reading a book about Humboldt, the 19th-century German scientist who spent five years exploring South America. Chimborazo and Cotopaxi made big impressions on him. Have you been near either one?
Hi Steve! Ecuador honors Humboldt’s name via many street names, addresses, etc. (Ditto for Darwin.) Yes, Chimborazo is stunning, and I love to visit Guaranda, which is beyond ‘Chimbo’ — Ecuadorians will ask, “How did you ever find Guaranda?” and I confess, ‘By taking a wrong road…’ I am thankful for wrong turns!
https://playamart.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/mystical-andes/
Humboldt’s botanist companion on the five-year trip through South America was a Frenchman named Aimé Bonpland. Have you run across anything down there named after him too?
Your sense of humor’s delightful. The two-cans particularly amused me, and I liked the mirrors with the Francis of Assisi quotation. How will they hold up? Do you use acrylics? Given the bright colors of the rain forest birds and flowers, they fit in beautifully, and don’t seem at all intrusive. You must have had wonderful fun with the project.
Yes, the treated boards were painted with acrylic paints and then sealed with a transparent floor finish. Hopefully they will be easy to wipe clean with a light chloro solution when needed. It will be fun to do a section of brightly-colored ‘hanging cans’ in another area, as in the dense shade there are few splashes of color.
Yes, we laughed a lot, and enjoyed working on that particular concept and then hanging the sign. (via two wires loosely draped over a horizontal limb.)
I love, love love, the whimsical signs…especially the cans. lol