Bus passenger

Back to Santiago ---

This is not a sculpture but someone riding a city bus. You know as much as I do!

Creek

Sunday's visit to Stinson Beach yielded several nice images, including this pretty little creek on its way to the ocean.

Local art

Another fountain (for people and dogs), only this time it is local - in Stinson Beach, California, about 25 miles from our house. This is by a Stinson Beach artist and I'm told his house is full of objects in this same style. His name? I didn't get it.

Sculpture

This is another drive-by shooting of street sculpture in Santiago. Try as I might I can't find any info online to tell us what this represents; however, it is quite striking.

Juxtaposition

What an interesting juxtaposition of old and new in Santiago!

I promised another view near our hotel, but I'll give you a view of some street dogs later - I see I deleted the one from here in favor of some later ones.

Snack cart

This is the back of a movable snack cart across the street from our Santiago hotel; it is open for business on the sidewalk side. Tomorrow - another scene around our hotel.

Boy

Our group stood in a big plaza in Santiago listening to our local guide John, when this young boy attached himself to our group. It was so obvious because we weren't moving, just standing and there were no other people very close by. He seemed to be just listening as well; he didn't get close to anyone or say anything. We think he was learning some English by listening. When we moved on he faded away.

Mirror

This is a very old mirror in the same museum as yesterday's fountain head. I took several photos before someone in our group was admonished that photography wasn't allowed. Of course, I didn't erase what I'd already gotten!

Art in Santiago museum

Art is truly in the eyes of the beholder.

Tis I in Santiago

Here I am in a park high above smoggy Santiago, wearing my name tag, and a sweater that I left on the tour bus a couple of weeks later (sob!).

Street Sculpture

When one is on a bus tour around a city, much of what you would like to photograph is glimpsed briefly through the bus window, and if you're lucky, as I was this day, the bus window is clean. This sculpture is on the sidewalk in Santiago and I can guess that it represents a Mapuche woman sitting in the hot sun with an umbrella to protect her. The Mapuches are the indigenous people of central and southern Chile.

Fountains in Santiago

We're back and I'm not even unpacked yet. I had to stop about halfway through and save that suitcase for tomorrow. Too tired.

As you know, we went on a 3-week Elderhostel cruise around the tip of South America. There were about 25 of us plus a leader and a lecturer. They kept us busy! Our first lunch together was at a fish market with a restaurant in the center of the market. An adventure. In the courtyard in front of the market were three fountains coming right out of the pavement. (We spent two days in Santiago, Chile before beginning the cruise.)

If you see mistakes in this epistle or think it could be more inspired, please forgive - I'm jet-lagged!