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Barbie Hispanic, Rio Señorita, 1979
Made in Taiwan
New girl in my collection.
Vinted finding, February 2025.
Many Hispanic communities celebrate Good Friday by recreating the passion and death of Christ. This is the Hispanic community at Saint Mary's Church in New Albany, Indiana.
Wikipedia has an article on a long-running tradition in a Mexico City neighborhood.
Portrait of a hispanic male.
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An overload of photos posted this morning (most of them uninspiring!), but I wanted to add them to my Texas albums, as they help to remind me of what this Sanctuary was like. All 15 images were taken at the Sabal Palm Sanctuary in the afternoon of 28 March 2019. After this visit, we had time to continue to South Padre Island, to check out the place, ready for our planned visit there the next morning. Lots of birds : )
Sunday, 9 February 2020: our temperature just before 11:00 am is 0C (windchill -6C). Sunrise is at 8:00 am, and sunset is at 5:41 pm. Cloudy with sunny breaks in the morning, with a few flurries developing in the afternoon.
Because it has been about 10 months since we went on this holiday, I have to check maps for names of the locations we visited, and any other information I gathered. Thank goodness the photos I took with my Nikon P900 have the GPS data and automatically appear on the Flickr map. Then I can add my Canon photos to the same marked locations.
This day started off with leaving the hotel that we had driven to on Day 9, the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, Brownsville, and driving to the first stopping place for Day 10. We stayed at this hotel for three nights, before having to drive all the way back to Houston on 30 March, ready to fly back home to Calgary.
Our early morning drive on Day 10 started off with driving in the wrong direction for quite a distance. One fun thing that happened as a result of this mistake, was that we spotted two beautiful Agave plants growing on either side of someone's front gate. We stopped in awe at the gorgeous orange flowers that grew from the tip of each leaf spike. I had never seen anything like these before and, once I got back to Calgary, I searched and searched on Google Images for photos that would give me an ID for these plants. Nothing - absolutely nothing - so I thought they must be something really unusual. Indeed, they were, lol! Some time after our return home, Anne B sent an email saying, guess what, these flowers were fake! She had looked at a close-up and could see the fabric lines and some frayed edges. A fun memory.
Once we were heading in the right direction, we drove east from Brownsville to Boca Chica, which is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The first bird we saw was a Meadowlark, perched on top of a Yucca plant along the Boca Chica Highway. Closer to Boca Chica Beach, there were police vehicles, and at one place we were stopped by two men. One told us we could not go any further, but the second man told us we could go on. Managed to get a couple of very quick photos of Laughing Gulls on the beach, and then we were told to leave. Apparently, there was going to be some test at the nearby SpaceX Space Launch Facility there. We were able to grab a couple of quick shots of the SpaceX prototype from the road, then quickly continued on our drive away from the area. Quite exciting.
"The SpaceX South Texas Launch Site is a spaceport and test at Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas, for the private use of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX).
Its stated purpose is "to provide SpaceX an exclusive launch site that would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows." The launch site was originally intended to support launches of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as "a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles",[4] but in 2018, SpaceX announced a change of plans, stating that the site would be used exclusively for SpaceX Starship. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicated in 2014 that he expected "commercial astronauts, private astronauts, to be departing from South Texas," and he foresaw launching spacecraft to Mars from there."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
From Boca Chica, our next stopping place was the Sabal Palm Sanctuary. On the way there, we briefly stopped to take a few photos of a beautiful Harris's Hawk perched on a high wire. In order to get to the Sanctuary, we had to drive through an opening in "The Wall". I had really been hoping that, at some point, we would actually see a length of The Wall, having heard about it endlessly on TV.
"The Sabal Palm Sanctuary is a 557-acre (225-hectare) nature reserve and bird sanctuary located in the delta of the Rio Grande Valley in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. It is noted for being one of the last locations in the Rio Grande Valley with a profuse grove of sabal palms, an edible-heart-bearing palm much prized by pre-Hispanic inhabitants and noted by early explorers. As a relatively habitat-rich remnant of this Valley, it is a prized birdwatching and butterfly watching location for persons interested in the ecology of the Valley and adjacent states of northern Mexico.
The Sabal Palm Sanctuary closely approaches the southernmost point in the state of Texas, and is the southernmost point accessible to the public.
The Sanctuary occupies a parcel of the former Rabb Plantation, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation on the bank of the Rio Grande - at that time, a river deep enough to float light steamboats. The plantation's produce was shipped directly from the riverbank; the successful plantation's Queen Anne mansion, built by Frank and Lillian Rabb in 1891-1892, was adaptively remodeled in 2013 to serve as the Sanctuary's visitor center." From Wikipedia. The Mansion is a really fine building.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_Palm_Sanctuary
Our final stop of the day was South Padre Island, where we had many good sightings. We were planning to go there the following morning, but decided we had time to also call in at the end of Day 10.
Portrait of a hispanic male.
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Stumbled on to a parade in Manhattan celebrating Hispanic culture. Since I had on my 85mm f/1.8G, thought I'd grab a few portraits.
Arrived today! After a shower and minor styling she turned into MINT. :) I still can't believe I got her.
Bon appetit!
Kelley is from Mattel's Starr line from the late '70s. She's one of Starr's friends. Kelley is dressed in Starr fashion #3319 After school date.
SofÃa is a Hispanic Barbie from 1979. She wears a Mattel tv star women fashion from the late 70's.
Hispanic male posing for a fashion shoot.
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Many Hispanic communities celebrate Good Friday by recreating the passion and death of Christ. This is the Hispanic community at Saint Mary's Church in New Albany, Indiana.
Wikipedia has an article on a long-running tradition in a Mexico City neighborhood.
Looks like the play was too realistic for this little one.
Many Hispanic communities celebrate Good Friday by recreating the passion and death of Christ. This is the Hispanic community at Saint Mary's Church in New Albany, Indiana.
Wikipedia has an article on a long-running tradition in a Mexico City neighborhood.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Presidio of Monterey held their Hispanic Heritage Month commemoration inside the Tin Barn on Sept. 29. The theme to this year's event was "Many Backgrounds, Many Stories, One American Spirit." Guest Speaker for the event was the Mayor of Pacific Grove, Carmelita Garcia and a presentation was made by Dr. Leah Graham, dean of the Student Learning Center.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The Hispanic Society of America Museum is one of my "New York Secrets." It's that perfect mix of nostalgia of old school museology, utter charm, and spectacular art. Its location in upper Manhattan sadly keeps most people away since it's well off the beaten path.