buried mirror: latest reflections

Buried Mirror is taking some time off. Back soon.

I hope to return to more regular blogging soon. We might as well start with our regular feature, Photo Wednesday. This image of hammocks against a bright wall comes from CasaDeQueso’s photostream. CasaDeQueso says that the hammocks were for sale at a roadside souvenir shop, near Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

This image of painted bowls at Chichen Itza comes from saguayo’s photostream. .

Incidents of virtual travel in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and greater Mesoamerica Animal Del Monte Festival in Xela, Guatemala A call to save Mirador Basin, the cradle of Maya civilization An interactive guide to reading Maya heiroglyphs Riviera Maya to get its own airport Desalojan a invasores del parque natural Yaxhá Video report on Aztec palace [...]

This view of Agua Volcano from somewhere near the Parqueo Central in Antigua, Guatemala, is from hexod.us’ photostream. .

It almost seems that half of Central and North America has been flooded lately. Southern Belize was particularly hard hit by tropical storm Arthur.

Buried Mirror is on medical leave and will be back soon.

Okay, here’s the fourth and final clue. This picture was not taken in Guatemala, but surely it will reveal the photographer featured in this week’s previous posts.

Jonathan Dunham was working as a substitute teacher in the Portland, Oregon, public schools when, a couple of years ago, he just started walking. He walked south to Texas, crossing the border at Tamaulipas. He stopped there long enough to do chores on a family farm; when he decided it was time to resume walking, [...]

An exhibition of Mexican prints is showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through January 13. The following copy is from the museum’s website: The artists included range from José Guadalupe Posada, influential figure in modern Mexican printmaking, to Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O´Higgins, and Alfredo Zalce, all members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular [...]

Around this time of year we start to see a lot of poinsettias. The plant is native to western Mexico and Guatemala. For the Aztecs the poinsettia (which they called cuetlaxochitl) was a symbol of purity (rather like the lotus in East Asia). I expect the red color would suggest blood to most ancient Mesoamerican [...]

Un nuevo servicio llamado BlogRush ha lanzado, que promete conducir tráfico a su blog. El servicio requiere la instalación del código del Javascript que carga un widget en su sitio.

A hairless breed of Mexican dog known as Xoloitzcuintles (show-low-eets-KWEENT-les, commonly called Itzcuintles in Mexic and Xolos elsewhere) is growing in popularity. The dog’s history is said to “date back to the Aztecs” (whatever that means). Near extinction, it was rescued by a group who rounded up enough dogs from remote mountain villages to launch [...]

I’m in the process of moving my Maya materials over here to www.buriedmirror.com from the Maya World section of www.rightreading.com where they had resided. I don’t think this will take too long, but there could be a few goofy issues with links, images, etc. while I’m setting up my 301 redirects and doing the other [...]