I believe this is a Hibiscus. They are common here in the Caribbean. All my time here you would think I would know what kind of flower this is. In any case it is beautiful.
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat
-Lyle Lovett from "If I had a Boat.
This was taken in St. Lucia
Labels: Eastern Caribbean, St. Lucia
I spent Christmas in St. Vincent and New Year's in St. Lucia. This photo was taken while walking to the bus stop from the Peace Corps volunteer's house.
Labels: Bequia, Caribbean, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
As you can see I am traveling again for my project documenting the daily lives of Peace Corps volunteers. I am currently in St. Lucia in the Caribbean. I started my travels in St. Vincent and the Grenadines where this tropical flower photo was taken.
I will be traveling until next summer when I will start work on editing and preparing the photos to be published in a book. The book will be published by Other Places Publishing. http://www.otherplacespublishing.com/
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Labels: Caribbean, flower, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, travel
I spent Christmas in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Christmas Eve morning we went to the finale of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines tradition of Nine Mornings. Pictured is Christmas Soca Legend C.P. Hall singing "Christmas in St. Vincent is Sweet" while handing out candy canes to the children.
Labels: Caribbean, children, Christmas, Soca, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, travel
After traveling through southern Illinois I stopped in New Harmony, Ind.New Harmony is a historic town on the Wabash River in Harmony Township, Posey County, Indiana, 15 miles (24 km) north of Mount Vernon, Indiana, the county seat. New Harmony, formerly named Harmony, was founded by the Harmony Society, headed by German immigrant George Rapp (actually Johann Georg Rapp) in 1814. This was the second of three towns built by the pietist, communal German religious group, known as Harmonists, Harmonites or Rappites. The other two towns founded by the Harmonites were Harmony, Pennsylvania (their first town), and Economy, Pennsylvania (now called Ambridge, Pennsylvania.) When the society decided to move back to Pennsylvania around 1824, they sold the 30,000 acres (121 km²) of land and buildings to Robert Owen, the Welsh utopian thinker and social reformer, and to William Maclure for $150,000, who then changed the name from "Harmony" to "New Harmony." Owen recruited residents to his model community, but a number of factors led to an early breakup of the communitarian experiment.
Labels: common good, historic, history, Indiana, New Harmony, socialism, Utopian
