Monterey Square

If you are lucky enough, you find yourself with time to spare and a well worn bench in a small square.

You might get lost in the trees overhead and the birds below, before heading in to the recital of piano and cello and violin.

If you are lucky enough.

Bonaventure

Band Shell in the Park

The Secret Garden

In an old city

                     
You can find brick and metal and Spanish moss mingling on the same street.

You can find shapes that speak to you. You say to the unknown maker, " I know you."

In your minds eye, you see him- fifty, sixty years ago or more, seated at a drafting board, crisp white shirt, high wooden stool, the tools of the trade, pencils and rule, triangles and  templates surround him.

He plays with shapes-drawing, measuring, comparing, pondering a simple thing, this rail.

And he finds it-this lovely combination of angles and circles and cat's eye.

It is a good day's work.

Truly, this is what it must mean to be at play in the fields of the Lord.

rancho alegre

Sweetened plantain, mint and sugar and rum, friends and families with birthdays and days for mom to sing and laugh about,  and a last burst of golden sun.

Pretend.

Pretend.....

...... that you dine on the sultry streets of Havana.

Look closer.......