New Fans of Lobo

Yesterday we got up, put on our walking clothes and headed out early to do the Sunday Paseo walk. I wore my Texas A&M t-shirt in honor of Johnny Football/Heisman Trophy Winner. We always say just about the time we think we have things figured out around here – they change. It was no different yesterday. None of the streets here in La Ermita were blocked off, no bike rentals set up. We started questioning whether or not it was even Sunday. When we got thru Centro and out to Paseo there were a few policia directing traffic and a few roadblocks to keep traffic off Paseo but "nothing is normal".

Nothing is normal...check out this bike!

Still don’t know why it was all different. We cut our walk a little short and headed back to where Lobo sets up. Lobo is an artist and he, along with other artists, set up their space and sell their paintings every Sunday in Parque de la Maternidad. Lobo has oil on canvas and acrylic on canvas for sale. He is a very interesting person, speaks English fluently and has spent time as an artist in Texas (Dallas) and New Mexico. He talked with us about all the beautiful, precious wood that gets wasted in the Highland Park area of Dallas alone when people come in and buy the old houses, then gut them during renovation. Without asking, I’m guessing he could do very well as an artist in the Highland Park – Dallas area. But, he chose to come back to his roots and live in Kanasin, a small town not far from Merida. The wood was mentioned because he has more recently begun making sculptures of humans using small blocks of scrap wood, of which are hard to come by. There just isn’t a lot of wood around here – everything is mostly masonry and metal.

Also, yes of course we bought from Lobo.

 

 

We ended up with two paintings because we couldn’t decide which one we wanted the most. We talked some more, took some pictures, and headed out with our Lobo signed artwork. A smaller one had already been stretched and mounted. The larger one is going to be another Project by Terry. Again, Lobo had mentioned it is costly and difficult to get the wooden pieces he needs to do the stretching himself, not to mention many people traveling buy his artwork and prefer that it not yet be mounted.  

WE’VE GOT MAIL!

Well, not really - but we do now have a mailbox for our correo. Until now, the water bill and electricity bill have just gotten thrown on the front porch by the motorcycle-riding mailman. We aren’t sure what else may have gotten thrown up on the front porch that we’ve never seen. Finding a mailbox wasn’t easy and it took asking around and a trip to the big Mercado and finding Manrique’s.  Manrique’s is one heck of a hardware/general store with all kinds of interesting things in it….hard to even explain.  But the sales people are helpful and friendly. So Tisha, Joanne, Mom, Alline and others that have asked about our address – Bring on the Mail!

In the meantime, we may have to mail something to ourselves just to be able to say “We’ve Got Mail!”