Saturday, April 14, 2012
Musical
Friday, April 13, 2012
The Dream Maker
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~Carl Jung Happy Friday! |
Thursday, April 12, 2012
City Contrasts
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“If you don't have a
strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.”
― Alvin Toffler |
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Cuernavaca Streets
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(iPhone Shots+Snapseed)
Cuernavaca From:
Nahuatl: Cuauhnāhuac (“Near the
Woods"). It was established at the archeological site of Gualupita I by
the Olmec,
"The Mother Culture" of Mesoamerica, approximately 3200 years ago. It
is also a municipality located about 85 km
(53 mi) south of Mexico City on the D-95 freeway.
The
city was nicknamed the "City of Eternal Spring" by Alexander von Humboldt in the
nineteenth century. It has long been a favorite escape for Mexico City and
foreign visitors because of this warm, stable climate and abundant
vegetation. Aztec emperors had summer residences there, and even
today, many famous people as well as Mexico City residents maintain homes
there. Cuernavaca is also host to a large foreign resident population,
including large numbers of students who come to study the Spanish language.
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Xinantecatl Volcano
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“Nevado
de Toluca” is a large stratovolcano in central Mexico, located
about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Mexico City near
the city of Toluca.
It is generally cited as the fourth highest of Mexico's peaks, after Pico de
Orizaba, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.
It is often called by the Nahuatl name Xinantecatl which
is usually translated as “The Naked Lord”.
The
volcano has a 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) wide summit caldera which
is open to the east. The highest summit, 4,680 metres (15,354 ft) Pico del
Fraile (Friar's Peak), is on the southwest side of the crater and
the second highest, 4,640 metres (15,223 ft) Pico del Aguila (Eagle's
Peak), is on the northwest. There are two crater lakes on
the floor of the basin at
about 4,200 m (13,800 ft), the larger Lago del Sol (Sun Lake) and the
smaller, but deeper, Lago de la Luna (Moon Lake). [Wiki]
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