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Today is the second day of our trip through Guanajuato, Mexico.  Today I will take you through some of the villages that we visited while we were there and share with you some of the photos that enjoyed taking like the one on the left that I photographed.  This photo was taken with my Minolta Dimage 5.  We visited the village that my mother-in-law grew up in and it was an amazing experience.  The photo in the left contains the donkey looking at us as we walked through the village.  The farmer had some hay burning in the background and it just seemed amazing.  I converted the photo to Black & White using Adobe Photoshop.

The photo on the right is of some dried corn that I got down on the floor to take this photo.  The village has a lot of things that just seem to be lying around on the floor.  I guess the corn is for the rats and chickens to eat.  Not sure but we did come across a dead mouse.  No photo of that here but I do have it if you would like to see it.  Just let me know.

This photo to the left  is of one of the houses my mother-in-law grew up in.  In the backyard they had an old structure that looked like a small home.  It appeared to be run down now and the roof caved in, but the light was shining through this doorway and the flowers were just amazing.

That is all the photos I have for today but stay tuned for tomorrow as we continue our tour through Guanajuato, Mexico.

Thanks for reading!

Semper Fidelis,

Manuel Perez

This photo is from last year when it was cotton season.  I am anticipating this years turnout for the cotton season.  I cant wait.  I always enjoy the season because it brings me back to the memories of going to work with my grandpa when he used to drive the cotton pickers.  I cant remember how old I was but I do recall him letting me drive a few times.  It was fun to grab hold of the wheel and just enjoy the time with my grandpa. 

I plan on taking lots of photos this year and I plan on sharing them with you all.

Thats all for this week.  Stay tuned for next week when I plan to have some great photos for you.

Enjoy the weekend and thanks for reading!

Semper Fidelis,

Manuel Perez

I heard that the Central Valley Farmers are supposed to get more water this year.  That is great because the Valley really hasn’t been the same since the cut backs on the water.  Because of the water loss many farmers have closed their ranches and left.  This leaves a lot of farm workers without jobs and ways to support their families which in then crashes the economy because the workers leave the area lowering the population and causing cutbacks in school attendance which in then crashes everything else. 

I hope that people will realize that the world doesn’t revolve around one fish to save over million of people.  Don’t they realize if there is no water for these crops then there is no food for the millions of people that get their produce from our fields? 

I know that it should hopefully increase the chances of taking more agriculture photos.  I love to capture the moments of the harvests.  I have been waiting for the chance to catch the photos of the cotton harvest.  I have been wanting to do that ever since my grandfather was an irrigator and used to drive the cotton picker during the season.  Even when I worked for the local John Deere company in town did I get a chance to snap a photo of the huge combines that pick the cotton.  Hopefully this year!

Thanks for reading!

Manuel Perez

I was driving to work on Tuesday and it was shocking that the fog was really bad on the way to work.  I thought it was funny that there was this much fog in the middle of March.  I didn’t have my camera with me but I pulled out my cell phone and snapped this photo with it. 

This is a normal sunrise but what was funny was all the fog.  

 

This is a photo of a semi driving down Highway 33.  I couldn’t get over how low the visibility was.  I thought about pulling over in some places but I was already going to be late if I didn’t hurry. 

 

I thought this was crazy how you could see the fog line in this photo.  I am surprised that the police haven’t stopped me yet for snapping photos while I am driving.  I like to capture the moments and sometimes I am in a hurry to get to where I need to be that I don’t have time to pull over and snap the photos.

I was driving to work on Tuesday morning and was coming up to a huge cloud.  I pulled over and photographed it.  The storm wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be but it started raining pretty good as I finished driving through the dark side of the storm.  It is pretty cool being able to enjoy the scenery on my way to work.

I photographed this crop duster getting loaded by a loader on my way home from work yesterday.  This is probably one of the weirdest things that this airport has no security what’s so ever.  You could practically walk right up to a plane and take off if you knew how to fly one.  I remember working for this one company in my hometown after I got out of the Marines.  I was hired as an Assistant Mechanic and they had us out there working in the heat as loaders loading rice into the plane.  Very interesting but something I don’t miss at all.  I worked there for about a couple of months before moving on to another place across the street selling tractor parts.  Not anything I miss either.

I was on my way to work one morning and noticed this beautiful sunrise and I had to stop and catch it.  I wish I could say I seen the sun this morning on my way to work but I didn’t.  That didn’t stop me from enjoying the beautiful morning though.  I was enjoying the beautiful mountains along with the way the fields are so green.  The sun seemed to be shining over the clouds above me because I could see the way it was shining on the mountains on the west.  Very amazing how the eagles were out on the prowl early also.  I just loved the whole morning.  Looks like we have some sun now.

This is a photo of some men working in a field.  The field was an old tomato field that they are stripping of all the irrigation lines that were buried in the field.  They are using a John Deere tractor to help pull the irrigation lines out of the ground.  I took this photo on my way to work one morning.  I used Adobe Photoshop to convert it to Black and White.