Little Flower

Little Flower

One little flower I saw in the hacienda.
I like how the center area, kind of makes a light twist.

Kisses
Crazy Jessica

Blondie

Blondie

My friend borrowed me her blonde wig, just seeing how it looked on me.

Water Experiment

Water Experiment

An experiment with merging images.

I took the same photo 3 times.
Then merged the elements of the 3 photos in one photo.

One in overexposed mode, with white balances set to tungsten light, thats the background, that looks a bit blue.

Then in normal exposure, with white balance set to cloudy, thats the water pool, that looks a bit brownish.

The third one, the same, but with a higher iso mode, 400 instead of 100, and a smaller aperture time. Thats the white water spring and some of the bubbles.

Just playing, it kind of looks weird, and a bit cute.

Henequen

Henequen

This are the Henequen fibers

Once dried the are used to do a lot of things. like ropes, bags, hats, clothes, furniture.

Ropes made of henequen are long lasting. And the fiber is flexible enough to bend without breaking.

During a lot of time henequen was a very prosperous industry, that created huge fortunes in Yucatan.

Then the synthetics fibers, plastics arrived, being cheaper and easier to produce, an in bigger volumes, and so Henequen was no longer profitable.

Two Paths

Two Paths

Its always scary when there are two paths ahead.
Which one to choose.
Specially when both are so appealing.

decision, its a scary time.

Kisses

Sitting down I tell

Sitting down I tell

Sitting down in that chair I tell you about the short adventure of Jessica this saturday.

I went to merida again, arrived, got a room, went out eating, still in the boy mode, and realised it was extremelly hot, like a thousand hells.

No option of going out girl, with that temperature, makeup wouldn't last longer than 5 minutes. So he kept fooling around a bit.

a bit later, when sun gas about to go down I went to get all pretty, looking as in the photo I went outside, to a park nearby and t walk a bit around. But turns out that Itook the camera without memory card, so no pictures. I could have returned to the hotel for the memory card, but that would make it as if the only reason to go out was a picture, and it was more to enjoy being outside, walking around the few humans there.

Later it was time to go back, for soon my friend Mercy was to arrive. A message sent, she arrived, changed, mak-up, and ready we were, Two pretty girls to go dancing. A night of talk and dance. I hope my friend enjoyed the out time.

Later time to go back, and to end this short dream of being Jessica


Kisses
Jessica in blue

Waterlilly Center

Waterlilly Center

The center area of a waterlilly.

The combination of the pale blue, with the vibrant yellow, and the tips on that purple-like blue.It is so happy

Henequen Plants.

Henequen Plants.

Henequen was named "The green gold", due to the great economic value it created during a long long time.

This are the plants of Henequen. a species of agave, in green color.

The big leaves(pencas) are cut and let dry a bit. After that they are passed to pressing machines that would extract all the liquid of the leaves, leaving at the end the fibers.

The fibers are the transported to hanging places where they are left for days to dry. Its then when the fiber is ready

Dented Wheel

Dented Wheel

One detail of some old machinery in the Hacienda.

It reminds me of the first bike I had whit brakes on the handle
On the previous ones, when you wanted to break, you just set the pedals, as if wantings to ride backward in a very fast movement.
But that one, when you did that, the chain will get loose, out of the dented wheel, and no more going. Had to get hands all dirty to put the chain back. Lots of cuts in my fingers.
But with time, I learned to break with my hands. And the problem disappeared.
Of course this has nothing to do with the picture

Kisses
JEssica and her rotten mind

And The Devil Walked Among Them

And The Devil Walked Among Them

And it was that on the eleventh day, the devil wearing a blue skirt, walked among them humans, corrupting their souls.
With every step the sound of her heels drove the creatures mad.
Every breeze the smell of her perfume dried the plants.
And just a gaze into her eyes, would turn the heart of the innocent ones into stone.

Oh, forces of destiny, why have you let such evil let loose.

Hacienda

Hacienda

I am going to do a little pause of the Canada Trip pictures, to show about the pictures of this weekend Trip.

Why???

Because.

So this one was taken in an Hacienda in Yucatan.

The Hacienda Ochill.

Haciendas existed all around Mexico during the time of spanish ruling. Dedicated to agriculture and similar.

In Yucatan, the main product was Henequen, and large Haciendas were built around it.

Sign

Sign

Lots of this kind of sign all around Quebec.

Yes there were other more pretty, or more elaborated, but hey, I love Ice Cream, so the decision to post this one instead of another, was totally made with the tongue or stomach.

With Saray

With Saray

Here I am with a new friend, Saray.

She is so thin, and with her own long hair.

As for me, definitively not a look to show off. but hey, it was that or nothing.

Standing Pose

Standing Pose

Just trying a pose

Its friday, apparently my brain, started the weekend earlier. No writting today

I wish you all a fun weekend.

Lion 17

Lion 17

A lion to guard the entrance at House 17.

It looks nice, plus the blue tone is really pretty.

Quebec Rue Champlain

Quebec Rue Champlain

The a stop in Quebec.

From the cities I visited in Canada this one , was the one I liked the most. Even being so crowded. There was just something about the architecture style, the going up and down, the lots of tourist, the lots of miniparks, that is so captivating and at the same time relaxing.

We walked a lot, hours and hours of walking.

This photo is from one of the busiest street, Rue Champlain. I know Rue is street in french.

Montmorency from above

Montmorency from above

taken from the bridge on top of the waterfall.

Maybe I am just that crazy, lot of people seem a bit scared when looking down.

To me it was great, I even felt the urge to jump. I guess is one cool fall, next and inside the water. Too bad we humans are not designed to fall that much without dying.

Bizarre

Bizarre

8 things why I am bizarre

Yes I know, one writes list when there is nothing to write about

lets begin....

8 sometimes I get the urge to eat things that humans are not suposed to eat

7 I sometimes get confused where is left and where is right (and yes in one ocasion I almost crashed because of that)

6 I don't like watches, I hate them

5 I enjoy watching the ants walk and carry things, and when possible I follow the line to the ant house

4 sdrawkcab etirw I semitemoS

3 I like to talk to my stuffed animal toys

2 I like eating salty things mixed with sweet things, like sandwich of strawbery jam with cheese, or tuna fish with honey.

and reason number one, I am a bizarre person is

1 if you tought I was going to write , BEing a boy I like to dress up in girl clothes, wrong, There is another reason to be number one, but I'll keep that one a secret.

Montmorency Waterfall

Montmorency Waterfall

Then we went to the Montmorency Waterfall. Its tall, and nice.

At first I thought, "Wow, thats gonna be one good stair climb", but then they took us up by bus, only to came down the stairs.

One thing about it, is that is near to the highway-road, so it sure is a nice view when driving around there. a waterfall on one side, the river-coast to the other.

Lion in Sainte Anne Basilique

Lion in Sainte Anne Basilique

On the trip we went to the Sainte Anne Basilique, that is a church dedicated to Sainte Anne, in the Bupreau coast in Canada.

Is a big church, yes I took photos of the church, but didn't felt like puting one more, so I am posting instead a picture of one detail that captured my attention, a lion in bronze

Canada Rainbow,

Canada Rainbow,

Seven colors. Purple, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red.

Evil scientist tell us that the reason for the rainbow to exist is that light reflects in the water drops, and different length waves bounce in different angles, causing the light composed of all seven colors, to spread out and show the colors.

Of course being an explanation from the evil scientists, is more complicated, and becomes boring.

Then when I was little in religion school, they taught us, that Noah, build and arc, put lots of animals inside, and then God, make it rain for 40 days, and everything was flooded, at the end, God promised never to make it rain that much, and as a sign of His promises, he created the rainbow, to appear after every rain. Of course one can see it the other way, as a reminder that rain can destroy if it last 40 days. Or in the case of my island even less days.

Another explanation, came from the boy scouts, the colors where fighting to decide which one was the prettiest one, so Mother Nature became sad of hearing them fight, and she cried, or in simple words, it rained. But the colors kept fighting. So she got angry, and screamed, and so came lighting, . Colors became scared, and become closer, hugging themselves, and so the rainbow appeared for the first time. Mother Nature was impressed by the beauty of the rainbow, that she stopped crying and screaming. And from that day, whenever it rains colors put a rainbow to stop it.

I like that last one the most.

Bupreau Canyon WaterFall

Bupreau Canyon WaterFall

In the Bupreau Canyon there is this waterfall.

With rainbow included when sun light hits in the right direction.

Its a short walk to go down, and then up again.

Quite impressive, plus one can see the forest from the outside.

At some point one can cross from one side to the other, either by bridge, or by zip wire (aerial runway) Guess which one the biological entity choose.

Canada Forest

Canada Forest

A view from a forest area in Canada, near the Bupreau Canyon.

Not something I can see around here.

We have forest areas in Mexico yes, but they all very far from where I live now.

Front with No Wig

Front with No Wig

I hope, chaos and destruction is not ahead

I am posted the well in public is the first no wig picture of Jessica.

I have already posted one before, but not public.

Of course my hairdressing skills are non-existent .

This makes me nervous.
I guess I am just that crazy and stupid.

Kisses
The wigless Jessica

Strange Flower

Strange Flower

This flower is different, like me.

Look at the pointy, spiky things under (or in this case to the right) of the purple things, I bet they are painful to touch.

But hey pretty things need to defend themselves
A bit dark, since it was in the shadowy area of the forest, and I forgot to change the ISO level. Sorry

Uniforms

Uniforms

More uniform from the Guard Change

Top, The new cadets (I suppose) in blue being given directions by their officer in green, accompanied by the girl in Scottish outfit. Look the different reactions to the officer pointing something outside of view. The one more to the left, seems more attracted to see the officer, the next one, to see what he is pointing, and the one to the right seems more interested in the girl, Perhaps thinking on asking her out.

Middle is the band, similar outfit to the guards.

And at the bottom, the Scottish part of the band.

Evil Jessica says : hey look, they allow men in skirt in the Canadian army, maybe I should join, just make the skirt shorter.

regular Jessica says: shut up, you evil one, or do you want Scottish people to hate us, is a kilt, not a skirt.

Stretched

Stretched

They say its good to stretch the muscles every now and then

Marching

Marching

We went to the change of guard in Ottawa

Every Morning (actually only during sumer they do it public) the guards that have been guarding different points, and the ones that are going to cover the new posts.

The sergeant then inspects both troops for arms, dress and colors.
Then check for some gun movements.

After they are ready to go, the band plays the anthem, and the new guard marchs to their new position.

Canadian Officers

Canadian Officers

A couple of Canadian Uniforms.

The one on the left, it must be very hot to wear that hat on summer, plus the coat. Nice standing.

The one on the right more cool, but the hat kind of looks like might affect sight.

Painted in purple

Painted in purple

The city of Ottawa was celebrating the 150 years of being selected as Capital of Canada.
From what I understood, on that time, the Queen of England selected Ottawa among several cities, to be named capital.

At night they had this light show against the parliament building, where there was a bit of history, bit of landscape, bit of artistic images.

I liked how the tower looked in purple.

I love Garfield (para Andy Lizeth)

I love Garfield (para Andy Lizeth)

I just love Garfield a lot

Its one of those cartoons that no matter how many times I have seen it, I always enjoy seeing.

One of my favorite chapter of Garfield if the one about

The Creature That Lived in the Refrigerator, Behind the Mayonnaise Next to the Ketchup and to the Left of the Coleslaw

just beacuse every time, they were to say the name of the monser, they put that illy scary music, and said the whole thing.


Kisses
Jessica

Photo dedicated to Andy Lizeth

Ottawa Parlamient Building

Ottawa Parlamient Building

This is one of the building around the Parliament Area in Ottawa

Again, the gothic style.

I like the green tone of the building roofs. I know its because of the oxide, and lots of them had it cleaned to show the brown tone. But me thinks they look better in green.

A bit blurry and noisy picture, but with only mi hands as support in a night pic, I think I made it ok, in some of them.

Ottawa Building

Ottawa Building

The next stop of the trip, was Ottawa, that is the capital of Canada. It looks like a nice city, unfortunately the time there was too short.

Arriving on the afternoon, could only walk around the downtown area, and most of my photos were during night.

Lots of big buildings, mostly in kind of a gothic style. I liked that.

Bicolor Flowers

Bicolor Flowers

Saw this ones in the 1000 Islands area, I so like how it has two colors. In both petals and center area.

Legs

Legs

Legs in Pink

I love the pattern-design in this stockings so much.

Kisses
Jessica

Castle in an Island

Castle in an Island

This ones has a long history, but due to my bad memory I will make it short :D

This island was the property of the owner of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.

He bought it for his wife.

Well, first the island, was cut and refill to make it have the shape of a heart.

Then he started building the castle, as a gift to his wife, a proof of their love.
He brought the best artisans, constructors , workers from all over the world, to build the most magnificent building ever.

But then, his wife died, and he abandoned the project.

Years later the regional council bought the island back, finished the castle, and turn it into a museum.

We only saw it form outside, since being tourist in Canada, we were not allowed to set feet in the island, that belongs to US.

Its quite impressive, but the history has a sad ending :(

Bye
Crying Jessica

An island in the 1000 Islands area

An island in the 1000 Islands area

After visiting Toronto and Niagara, we made a stop in a place called Thousand Islands.

Is a river and lake, in the border between Canada and US, where there are a lot of islands. So the name 1000 Islands.

There are big ones, and large ones.
Some have huge superpretty houses, other small ones.

I can say that I live in an island too.
Of course not like those ones.

Lots of ducks too. but thay kept themselves too far away from the boat.

Kisses
Jessica Islander

Back Hair

Back Hair

Time to run away
Close your eyes
Say your prayers
Hide the kids
Ready the holly water and the swords.

For, she, that devilish pseudo-human is back.
Yes thats Jessica

And oh my, with no wig.

Blasphemy.

Kisses
Jessica

A flower of little flowers

A flower of little flowers

This one is like a little flower bouquet with a star-shaped handle

From far, it looked like one big flower, a big surprise to see its actually lots of little ones.

A reminder of how things are made of smaller things, and from there smaller things we cannot see in plain sight like cells, then smaller things like molecules and from the atoms, and next little particles that have only been theorized of existence.

It makes one wonder, how long till the little thingies are so tiny that there is no way that they can be made of even tinnier things. Or does that go to infinite division, smaller and smaller to point we humans will never understand.

Sorry from
the silly pseudo-science Jessica

By night 2.

By night 2.

The other waterfall at night

Lots of mist in the center area.

Last picture I post of this waterfalls, i know, I know a lot of them.

Also, Jessica is about to return, worry not.

By Night 1

By Night 1

When night fall on Niagara, they send color lights against the waterfalls.
So the water turns colorful.

Its nice to see, and from the high view point one can also see the city from above. but is not as impressive as the waterfalls.

And then to party on the city.

Flower 3

Oculto se encuentra un deseo que quema
entre sombras y niebla buscando escapar
temeroso de un encuentro que piensa mortal
se impide a si mismo salir y gozar.

Flower 3

a pretty flower.

attempt of translation

Hidden lies a burning desire
among shadows and fog trying to scape
afraid of a meeting that it thinks as deadly
forbidding itself to go out and shine.

Niagara WaterFall

Niagara WaterFall

In Niagara there is a boat trip called "Maid of the mist"

The boat, than can be seen in one of my previous pics, goes along the river coming really close to the waterfalls.

They gave you a little raincoat, since the mist and watersplash is sure to make you go extremelly wet. I saw it on one arm I left outside :P

Its really impressive. Its from down there that one can actually see how big the waterfalls are, as opossed to the views from the walk area on the side.

when coming close to the big Canadian one, it swings a lot, Yupiiiiii.

Niagara US Fall

Niagara US Fall

This is a front view of the Niagara WaterFall that is on US side

Canada Niagara Falls

Canada Niagara Falls

Another picture of the Canadian Niagara Falls, You can see the little boat there, is the "Lady of the Mist" Boat, It goes close to the waterfall.

Impressive thing is the mist area in the center, From postcards I saw that sometimes its not there so the full waterfall is viewable, must be pretty, but like this is impressive too.

And see the bird there, well while on the boat, we saw a few birds (I think they were ducks) flying there in that close to the waterfall area.

Niagara Flower

Niagara Flower

Of course the most impresssive thing in Niagara are the waterfalls. But there is also lots of gardens, with plants and flowers around.

I saw this one, its pretty.

But also, it looks like a bell, a dress, a kiosko.

Niagara US Waterfall Above

Niagara US Waterfall Above

This other one, is the one that belong to the US. also taken from above.

Niagara Canadian Waterfall Above

Niagara Canadian Waterfall Above

The Niagara Waterfall are actually two Waterfalls, This one, the biggest one belongs to the Canadian, They call it the "Shoehorse Waterfall" Taken from an airplane above

Niagara Bird

Niagara Bird

I saw lots of this birds around the Niagara Waterfalls.

Gray Girl

Gray Girl

Old one, since I have no new ones, and well Jessica has to show up in between other photos