We just got back from a week, a wonderful week in Cuba. I’m way behind. Where do I begin? How about the Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC), pronounced /kook/. So, let me get this out of my system: Rum and CUC. See also Santiago de Cuba rum.
In two days we’ll be flying to Cuba, but that’s another story.
Today was our last full day going down Memory Lane in Algiers Point, New Orleans, where we had lived from 2005 to 2010. As Annyth says, we were “in with Katrina and out with the Super Bowl.” It goes without saying that those were some life-changing years! From the very beginning – and to this day – we’ve had a special attachment to House of the Rising Sun Bed and Breakfast and its proprietors, Kevin and Wendy. In fact, they’ll be our travelmates on the upcoming tour.
We first met Wendy and Kevin in February of 2005, when we stayed at their B & B while we were closing on a house just around the corner from them (See The Misbelieve Tree.) As new residents of Algiers Point, we became friends with them, and through them, many others. Here we are “strolling” as the Monopoly Board in the French Quarter on Mardi Gras in 2009. The friendship and the story…to be continued.
Side by side, photo referenced, freehand iPad drawing in the Procreate app using Sty-HD stylus.
After we spend a couple of days with friends in our old neighborhood, Algiers Point in New Orleans, LA, we’ll be flying to Havana, Cuba on a chartered flight to begin a week-long educational tour of the capital city plus an excursion to Las Terrazas. With most of the packing and preparations nearly done, and the house move put on hold, I’m assembling some of my romantic notions about Cuba expecting that they will be somehow put into perspective. I’ve flown over Cuba several times on short and long trips to Paraguay, Colombia, and Argentina back when it was practically impossible to enter the country. Times have changed, relations have begun to normalize, but the embargo has not yet been lifted. So we’ll enter on an educational tour sponsored by a Canadian company.
Technical: I referred to this photo to do a freehand drawing in Procreate. Also, I made use of the image in a previous post, entitled Sin Embargo, after a reversal and some tweaking.
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NOTE: We haven’t yet moved into our new house. This is an old, innocent dog from the old Ragsdale neighborhood.
Not long ago I poked fun at Sawyer by comparing him to Cousin It from the old TV series, the Addams Family, but that was based on his beautiful hair. I mentioned in that post that I liked him, meaning, I like his voice, his style, and so forth, pretty much the whole package. Since he was chosen as this year’s Voice, I thought I would treat him with the respect he deserves.
This was the photo I used as a reference to render a freehand drawing in Procreate.
I’ve been listening to a lot of BB King in the last couple of days. So I thought I’d pay my respects in a rendering.
Here’s the reference photo I used to do a side by side, freehand in Procreate of the one and only, BB King.
BB can play some face too, as illustrated so well in this clip I got from YouTube.
Homeowners again.
See you at Lowes!
Moving is making it practically impossible, not theoretically impossible, to live fully in the present moment. In chronological terms, time is either passing through us or we are passing through it; in terms of kairos, we are when we are before, during, and after the erosion.
According to Annyth, these repeatedly signed, initialized, and dated documents hereby say, “You’re screwed; we’re not.” In just a few days they’ll also mark our reversion back to being home owners after being renters since June of 2008, when we sold our house in New Orleans (see digital story with original soundtrack), which, by the way, was the very last house to sell in the entire Western Hemisphere after the bursting of the housing bubble.
A dear friend shared a link to Darya Dadvar, Golshifteh Farahani performing with Steve Shehan and other musicians. Click on the link for more information and to enjoy the performance. It enchanted me, and Darya’s profile in particular called my attention, so much so that I was prompted to render it using a still shot from the video as a reference in a side by side, freehand drawing in Procreate. Thank you Maryam.
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