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melanie, twice
I have a tiny little side hustle as a kind-of regular speaker at a couple of civic groups here in town. I know – it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, either. But they keep asking me back. (Apparently the good speakers in town are already booked on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon so it’s come down to me.)
A few days ago, I did a presentation on last year’s trip to Cuba and I took the opportunity of putting that together to edit a few images that I didn’t get to last year.
This diptych of the dancer name Melanie were in the new edits. And since I also have a daily post thing to do, I decided to utilize them here as well.
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.6.2022
to be Cuban
Among many other things, being Cuban means to be prepared to wait in line. We often saw lines like this, and never quite knew what the people were standing in line for. At one line, one of our guides reported that the people were waiting for chicken, but that wasn’t even helpful. Did he mean live chickens? Or whole chickens? Or leftover chicken from a restaurant? Or was it a mis-translation?
(That’s just one of the things I encountered in Cuba that I don’t really understand.)
Cienfuegos, Cuba
photographed 11.11.2022
the pensive man
You may remember an earlier photograph of a street-side mechanic? This is the man whose hands you saw in that other image. In case you wondered.
We were in his vicinity for several hours and that motorcycle never seemed to become operational while we were there; his face tells the same story.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
photographed 11.9.2022
island kitchen
I was lucky and got invited into a private home last fall when I was in Cuba.
Cojímar, Cuba
photographed 11.6.2022
One Day | One Image 