Equinox dreamscapes

Our version of the infamous "haboob" is working its way across the mesa as I write.  The wind is howling, accompanying a storm moving in from the West.  One last brush of winter before the vernal equinox arrives this week.  It is easy to see how people in the Great Plains went mad during dust bowl days.  But it is equally easy to become lost in dreamscapes.

Every photograph provides the viewer with an opportunity to dream within it, but the three photographs here almost have a fantasy or fairy tale quality to them.

The island of Barbados in the Lesser Antilles was economically tied to sugar cane production beginning in the mid 1600s.  Today, its economy is much more diversified but remnants of the cane industry remain.  One of the old sugar mills is shown below.

The Mexican cosmopolitan city of Guadalajara has many lovely and mysterious stairways within its Tlaquepaque district.

Finally, few places say "dreamscape" like the castle Eilean Donan in Scotland.  My meager photographic offering hardly does it justice but provides just a peek into its history.

until next Monday,

DB

a passion for the image

Civilizations past

Human beings are intimately involved in their lives, the lives of their families and those surrounding them, regardless of during which point in history they live.  Although all of us should ponder, remember, and learn from the past, we tend not to do that.  The action of viewing remnants of lives and civilizations past requires our minds to work on some level, and think about the people who lived, built, and died in those surroundings.

The Temple of the Seven Dolls is part of the Mayan civilization at Dzibilchaltun in the Mexican state of Yucatan.  Windows in temples are rare.

Chac Mool figures are common elements in Mayan architecture.  Here is one at the top of the Temple of the Warriors in Chichen Itza, a Mayan ruin with Toltec influence.  

This serpent pillar overlooks the ball court at Chichen Itza.

There is so much to learn!

until next Monday,

DB

a passion for the image