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I Can't Help Myself

 MINOR POLITICAL RANT

I see 49% of seniors in the USA voted for teabaggers for the sole purpose of getting rid of Universal Health Care. Are you nuts? We don't believe in capital punishment up here in Canada but if anyone tried to eliminate our Universal Health Care system they would be stood up against the wall and starved to death!

Mr. President, the Teapublicans are out to "take you down"! If they take the country down as well, so be it, they will simply consider it collateral damage. They do not care - all they want is power. Learn to fight back. You won the Presidential election. Get tough!

Sand Mural

This is a mural made by painstakingly gluing different colored grains of sand to the side of a building. It consists of depictions of all of Cuba's historic characters.

Artwork like this can sit around the streets for years without guards and without any fear of vandalism. It is a totally different mindset in Cuba! I can't get over it!

More Street Scenes

I put a 16 Gig memory card into my Nikon D200 for the Havana trip and almost half filled it with 900+ photos on the two day Havana trip alone. Before we left Cuba I transferred the photos to the computer and gave the card to Roly as it fits his Canon 50D and will replace the limited capacity 2 Gig card he has been working with. This will give him much more flexibility in his wedding photography business. I am making do with my "old" 8 Gig card.

Roly is an excellent guide if anyone is planing on making this trip. The photos he takes are part of his services if you have a way to copy and save them.

Photo 2)  Right at the corner of Plaza de Armas in Old Havana is a small church surrounded by colonial style steel fences, at the left corner from the main entrance grows a large old tree. This is a special good luck tree. Cubans believes that if you walk three times around the tree, it will bring you luck and prosperity. I did this myself with Roly and am patiently awaiting my luck.

Book Store

Roly, a retired University Professor, was very interested in some of these books. He said a few years ago they would not have been available.

More Scenery

While Norma, Brooks and Linda took a break in the rooftop bar, Roly and I went for a walk to see the sights. It was nice to just go where I wanted without having to herd the cats. Who knows when I will be back to Havana and I can rest when I am dead.

Street Scenes

I love snapping these quick shots of the streets. I lift the camera and shoot before people notice and try to pose.

From The Rooftop

These are views from the rooftop restaurant of the Ambos Mundos Hotel.

Papa Meets Fidel

This is a photo hanging in Hemingway's hotel lobby.