South of the border a machete is man’s best friend. It’s like a Swiss knife. It’s used for just about everything in the house and out on the working fields. No Panamanian farmer or campesino would imagine leaving his house without his trustworthy machete. In tropical and subtropical countries, the machete is frequently used to [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Safekeeping a Collins Machete
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Agriculture, Collins, Countryside, Culture, Machetes, Mi Pueblito, Panama, Tools, Tourism, Traditions on May 11, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Wood-Burning Stove
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Cooking, Culture, Mi Pueblito, Panama, Stoves, Tourism, Wood Burning on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pots & Pans
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Cooking, Cooking Utensils, Cultures, Mi Pueblito, Panama, Pans, Pots, Tourism on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Maize, The Gift From the Gods
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Corn, Countryside, Culture, Diet, Gift From the Gods, Maize, Mayan Indians, Mi Pueblito, Panama, Tourism on May 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
There is hardly a household in Central America that doesn’t eat a corn-related meal during the day. Corn or maize, as it’s often called, is the core of the daily diet in this part of the world. It’s also true of many countries of South America as well. Great civilizations need a great asset. Ancient [...]
Windows, a Symbol of Hope
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Architecture, Countrywide, Customs, Homes, Mi Pueblito, Panama, Tourism, Windows on May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Windows are powerful symbols. A window is an orifice in the wall that allows fresh currents of air to waft into the suffocating dwellings. Through the openings of windows, light illuminates our homes. Windows are symbols of opportunities. Windows are symbols of hope. Beware of a house without windows, for in that home hope has [...]
Doors of Mi Pueblito
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Buildings, Color, Doors, Mi Pueblito, Panama, Photographs, Structures, Tourism on May 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’m attracted to buildings. There is something about their shapes, colors and styles that reveal the personality and lifestyle of a community. After being addicted to blogging and photography, my attention is focusing more and more on the buildings of my homeland. While photo walking at Mi Pueblito, I found the following colorful doors which [...]
The Rumor of an Amazon Tablet
Posted in Gadgets, tagged Amazon, Apple, Apple iPad, Competition, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Tablets, Technology on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As you probably know, the Apple iPad has taken the tablet market by storm. It’s the most widely used tablet in the four corners of the globe. There are many copycats, but the iPad is smoothly sailing under bright blue skies. Another new player in this crowded market seems to be Amazon. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s [...]
Major Web Browsers Worldwide Usage – April 2011
Posted in Web Browsers, tagged Competition, Google, Internet, Market Share, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Software, Web Browsers on May 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Fresh statistics have been released into the wild by Net Applications for April 2011. Net Applications’ statistics are based on the activity of about 160 million visitors per month to Web sites using its services. These are the latest figures on the performance of the Masters of the Universe of the Internet as far as [...]
Quotes
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination. It is the property of the language itself.“ Derek Walcott—Nobel Prize for Literature Thanks Linda for this thought-provoking quote found in your blog.
Smoked Walls
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Panama, Rural Houses, Smoke, Structures, Tourism, Traditions, Wood Stoves on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
